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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Birkenstein, Jeff.; Froula, Anna.; Randell, Karen.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 242 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.