Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Where Y'at? -- Part One. Television News -- 1. There Is No Wide Shot: Television News and Collective Memory -- 2. Weather Citizens: Sunday, August 28 -- 3. These Are the First Pictures from the Air: Monday, August 29 -- 4. The Sort of Disaster Humans Cause: Tuesday, August 30 -- 5. The Walking Dead: Wednesday, August 31 -- 6. Over My Drowned Body: Thursday, September 1 -- 7. Not Sure What Is the Truth or Rumor Anymore: Friday, September 2 -- 8. A Big Corner Turned: Saturday, September 3 -- 9. A Violent Day: Sunday, September 4 -- 10. 99 Percent of It Is Bullshit: The Weeks After -- Part Two. Documentary -- 11. Familiar from Television: Documentary as Collected Memory -- 12. A Requiem in Four Acts: When the Levees Broke -- 13. Ain't Nobody Got What I Got:Trouble the Water -- 14. How Can Our Past Help Us to Survive This Time?Faubourg Treme -- 15. We Were Not on the Map: A Village Called Versailles -- 16. Our Mayor: Race -- 17. Re-Occupying New Orleans: Land of Opportunity -- 18. Disappeared People: Law & Disorder -- Part Three. Fiction -- 19. My Fiction Seems a Bit Inconsequential to Me Now: Treme's Truth Claim -- 20. In the David Simon Business: Treme's Mode of Production -- 21. The Continuance of Culture -- 22. All These Trucks Got Bodies?Dramatizing Injustice -- Conclusion. Desitively Katrina -- Bibliography -- Films and Media -- Index.