The war on terror and American popular culture
Subtitle: September 11 and beyond
By: edited by Andrew Schopp and Matthew B. Hill.
Contributors: Schopp, Andrew, 1964-; Hill, Matthew B., 1974-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; UNKNO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780838642078
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Influence; Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States
Description: 300 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Interrogating the American "passion for the real": Witnessing the fall: September 11 and the crisis of the permeable self / Christine Muller; Perpetual media wars: the cultural front in the wars on terror and drugs / Todd Schack; Boring is the new interesting : September 11, realness, and the politics of authenticity in pop music / Em McAvan; Representing the real on The road to Guantanamo / Meghan Gibbons; title: Part II. "Back to basics": reaffirming national myths: Tom Clancy, 24, and the language of autocracy / Matthew B. Hill; Lost; title: a post-September 11, post-oedipal American Jeremiad / Mathias Nilges; "People have had enough tragedy": the spectacle of global heroism in Superman returns / Justine Toh; Deal with it, sort of: the picture-book treatment of September 11 / Katie Sciurba; title: Part III. Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.