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5 wrz 2022 · An HBO Max documentary, released before the seventeenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, looks at the storm’s reverberating effects on children in New Orleans. By Doreen St. Félix. September 5,...
13 sie 2015 · In the preface of Flood of Images, the author reminds us of the simple facts of the event: starting on Monday, August 29, 2005 at 6:10 a.m., Hurricane Katrina made landfall at Buras, Louisiana. Although it had diminished from a Category 5 to a Category 3 storm, a 21-foot surge hit the Louisiana coast, with an even larger surge in Mississippi.
The second section of the project delves into documentary representations of Katrina, such as When the Levees Broke , Trouble the Water, and A Village Called Versailles , among others. These documentaries built upon and often re-thought the memory of the storm crafted by television news. Cook asserts that
Edward Buckles Jr. was 12 when Hurricane Katrina changed everything. He found common cause-and shared trauma--with young people whose lives were similarly shaped by the storm.
Katrina Babies: Directed by Edward Buckles Jr.. With Calvin Baxter, Arnould Burks, Damaris Calliet, Cierra Chenier. An intimate look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the youth of New Orleans.
29 sie 2008 · She's a rapper now, and the song she performs for the camera, "Amazing," is just that — an explicit and profane account of her sordid past capped with an irresistibly upbeat refrain.
15 sie 2008 · Often blurring the line between real and invented, Katrina dramas necessarily function as documentaries. The ghost-town images of demolished houses, uprooted trees and overturned cars are by...
