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Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /
edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell.
- New York : Continuum, 2010.
- xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-238) and index.
Introduction / Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell -- (Re)creating language. Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide -- The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges -- 9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone -- Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent -- 9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead -- An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein -- The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur -- Visions of war and terror. Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. Governing fear in the Iron cage of rationalism : Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 looking glass / David H. Price -- -- Cultural anxiety, moral clarity and willful amnesia : filming Philip K. Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin -- Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula -- Afterword / John G. Cawelti.
9781441111326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1441111328 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781441119056 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1441119051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Terrorism in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Influence.
Popular culture--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Terrorism and mass media--United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.
PN1995.9.T46 / R44 2010
791.436552 / R44
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-238) and index.
Introduction / Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell -- (Re)creating language. Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide -- The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges -- 9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone -- Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent -- 9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead -- An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein -- The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur -- Visions of war and terror. Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. Governing fear in the Iron cage of rationalism : Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 looking glass / David H. Price -- -- Cultural anxiety, moral clarity and willful amnesia : filming Philip K. Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin -- Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula -- Afterword / John G. Cawelti.
9781441111326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1441111328 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781441119056 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1441119051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Terrorism in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Influence.
Popular culture--Political aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Terrorism and mass media--United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.
PN1995.9.T46 / R44 2010
791.436552 / R44