Reframing 9/11 Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"
by Birkenstein, Jeff; Froula, Anna; Randell, KarenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-13
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
September 11th, 2001, remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world.
Author Biography
Jeff Birkenstein is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington.
Anna Froula is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at East Carolina University.
Karen Randell is a Principal Lecturer in Film at Southampton Solent University, UK, where she is Programme Leader for Film and Television.
Anna Froula is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at East Carolina University.
Karen Randell is a Principal Lecturer in Film at Southampton Solent University, UK, where she is Programme Leader for Film and Television.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| (Re)creating Language | |
| Fear, Terrorism, and Popular Culture | p. 11 |
| The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary US Cinema and TV Culture | p. 23 |
| 9/11, British Muslims, and Popular Literary Fiction | p. 35 |
| Left Behind in America: The Army of One at the End of History | p. 45 |
| 9/11, Manhood, Mourning, and the American Romance | p. 57 |
| An Early Broadside: The Far Right Raids Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | p. 69 |
| The Sound of the "War on Terror" | p. 83 |
| Visions of War and Terror | |
| Avatars of Destruction: Cheerleading and Deconstructing the "War on Terror" in Video Games | p. 97 |
| The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's Vision of a Post-9/11 America | p. 107 |
| Superman Is the Faultline: Fissures in the Monomythic Man of Steel | p. 117 |
| The Tools and Toys of (the) War (on Terror): Consumer Desire, Military Fetish, and Regime Change in Batman Begins | p. 127 |
| "It Was Like a Movie": The Impossibility of Representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center | p. 141 |
| The Contemporary Politics of the Western Form: Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood | p. 153 |
| Prophetic Narratives | |
| Governing Fear in the Iron Cage of Rationalism: Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 Looking Glass | p. 167 |
| Cultural Anxiety, Moral Clarity, and Willful Amnesia: Filming Philip K. Dick After 9/11 | p. 183 |
| Prolepsis and the "War on Terror": Zombie Pathology and the Culture of Fear in 28 Days Later... | p. 195 |
| Afterword | p. 209 |
| Contributors | p. 215 |
| Bibliography | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 239 |
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