Books by Marita Sturken

Argues that over the years, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. This book investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks.

Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'