Format:
XIII, 242 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781441111326
,
9781441119056
Content:
A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION I: (RE)CREATING LANGUAGE -- Chapter 1 Fear, Terrorism, and Popular Culture -- Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary US Cinema and TV Culture -- Chapter 3 9/11, British Muslims, and Popular Literary Fiction -- Chapter 4 Left Behind in America: The Army of One at the End of History -- Chapter 5 9/11, Manhood, Mourning, and the American Romance -- Chapter 6 An Early Broadside: The Far Right Raids Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- Chapter 7 The Sound of the "War on Terror" -- SECTION II: VISIONS OF WAR AND TERROR -- Chapter 8 Avatars of Destruction: Cheerleading and Deconstructing the "War on Terror" in Video Games -- Chapter 9 The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's Vision of a Post-9/11 America -- Chapter 10 Superman Is the Faultline: Fissures in the Monomythic Man of Steel -- Chapter 11 The Tools and Toys of (the) War (on Terror): Consumer Desire, Military Fetish, and Regime Change in Batman Begins -- Chapter 12 "It Was Like a Movie": The Impossibility of Representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center -- Chapter 13 The Contemporary Politics of the Western Form: Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood -- SECTION III: PROPHETIC NARRATIVES -- Chapter 14 Governing Fear in the Iron Cage of Rationalism: Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 Looking Glass -- Chapter 15 Cultural Anxiety, Moral Clarity, and Willful Amnesia: Filming Philip K. Dick After 9/11 -- Chapter 16 Prolepsis and the "War on Terror": Zombie Pathology and the Culture of Fear in 28 Days Later . . . -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441141958
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781282821798
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441111326
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reframing 9/11 : Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reframing 9/11 New York, NY [u.a.] : Continuum, 2010 ISBN 1441119051
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1441111328
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441119056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441111326
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Film
;
Elfter September
;
Popkultur
;
Elfter September
;
Computerspiel
;
Elfter September
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
