Hurricane Katrina - Representation in Other Media

Representation in Other Media

  • Hurricane Katrina has also been the subject of several documentary films, including Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke, and Darren Martinez's film, Hellp.
  • An episode of the Fox TV series House, first broadcast on May 16, 2006, featured a teenage victim of Hurricane Katrina in the medical storyline.
  • An episode of the BBC show Top Gear was praised for being one of the first to show the full scale of the destruction after the waters had receded.
  • David Eggars' non-fiction book, Zeitoun, featured an Arab-American family man caught in an anti-terrorist round-up as he was trying to help neighbors in the aftermath of the hurricane.

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