Diana's Mourning: A People's History
In the week following the death of Princess Diana, the media presented images of the entire British nation united in tearful, hysterical grief to mourn their “People’s Princess.” However, despite this emphasis on the response of the “people,” there has so far been no detailed examination of popular attitudes or media coverage during September 1997.\ \ James Thomas radically challenges the myths surrounding the mourning with the first ever “people’s history” of the week. He combines a...
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In the week following the death of Princess Diana, the media presented images of the entire British nation united in tearful, hysterical grief to mourn their “People’s Princess.” However, despite this emphasis on the response of the “people,” there has so far been no detailed examination of popular attitudes or media coverage during September 1997. James Thomas radically challenges the myths surrounding the mourning with the first ever “people’s history” of the week. He combines a detailed survey of media coverage with analysis of a range of qualitative and quantitative evidence about popular attitudes, especially those of the “ordinary” people across Britain who recorded their views and actions for the Mass-Observation of Britain project. Diana’s Mourning provides fascinating evidence of the diversity, complexity and ambiguity of popular reactions to Diana’s death, and demonstrates that, far from being united, the British people were in fact deeply divided in grief in September 1997. It not only questions the accuracy of media representations of popular opinion, but also illustrates the media’s power to influence attitudes and shape the myth of a nation in mourning. gwales.com This pioneering volume is certainly a stimulating and eye-opening read.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1IThe Media, the Academics and the Mourning71The Myth of Mourning72Diana Studies and Mass-Observation25IIThe Mourning After: People's Histories453The People's Princess454The Week of Mourning645Divided in Grief79IIIMourning Identities: Nation, Gender and Sexuality996England's Rose - or Argentina's?997A Women's Mourning1168A Fairy Story136IVMedia Power and the Mourning1539Mourning News: The Media, the People and the Veil of Tears153Notes182Bibliography189Index206
\ gwales.comThis pioneering volume is certainly a stimulating and eye-opening read.\ \
