Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America (Culture America)
An incisive portrait of the complex and at times contradictory role played by television in constructing a national discourse around the events of 9/11. Takacs’s probing and perceptive analyses of news and entertainment programming shows how these categories melded together in ways that helped make television a strategic theater in the Bush administration’s war on terrorism. --Stephen Prince, author ofFirestorm: American Film in the Age of TerrorismAn indispensible study showing how popular culture mediated a profound national trauma. --Aniko Bodroghkozy, author ofGroove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth RebellionA daring and original book that is superbly researched, richly detailed, and carefully argued. --Wheeler Winston Dixon, author ofFilm Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia