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Reframing 9/11 [electronic resource] : film, popular culture and the "war on terror" / edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Continuum, 2010.Description: xiii, 242 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6552 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.T46 R44 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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