Angel Patriots : : The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America / / Alexander T. Riley.
When United Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the gash it left in the ground became a national site of mourning. The flight’s 40 passengers became a media obsession, and countless books, movies, and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Flight 93 and 9/11: American Mythology in the Making
- 2. Death, Horror, and Culture: Making Sense of the Senseless in Memorials
- 3. The Sacralization of Shanksville: The Emergence of the Temporary Memorial Site
- 4. Flag Bodies: Commemoration in the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel
- 5. The Permanent Memorial: Symbolic Work and Conflict in the “Bowl of Embrace”
- 6. The Cultural Narratives of the Books on Flight 93
- 7. The Cultural Narratives of the Films on Flight 93
- 8. Myth in Practice: Visitors at the Temporary Memorial Site
- 9. What Flight 93 Tells Us about America
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author