Bücher von Patricia Leavy

When Hollywood movie star Finn Forrester and philosopher Ella Sinclair meet on an exotic film set in Sweden, their connection is palpable. Living on location, making a film that explores the big questions of life, they fall madly in love. Will they be able to trust it and ask themselves the biggest question of all?

When writer and arts researcher Dee Schwartz meets famous actor Ryder Field outside a bar one night, the romance that blossoms seems like a fairy tale . . . until Dee disappears into thin air after an awards ceremony, making everyone wonder if the fairy tale will have a darker ending than anyone could have anticipated.

Patricia Leavy, herself both a highly published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience, including a methodological introduction and five stories showing these methods in action.

Iconic Events: Media, Power, and Politics in Retelling History examines the processes of collective memory surrounding traumatic events that have been deemed iconic in American culture. Leavy investigates the social and market forces that have shaped the meanings around and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11th. Iconic Events focuses on three interpretive phases that serve to mold public perception of these events: journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations. With a vital, engaging approach, Leavy explores the processes by which traumatic events are made mythic in the public eye. Iconic Events is essential for collective memory scholars and undergraduate courses in communications, American studies, history, and sociology, as well as the general reader.