American popular culture in the era of terror
Subtitle: falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures
By: Jesse Kavadlo
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781440835629; 9781440835636
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Popular culture; Influence; Civilization; American National characteristics; Mass media; Psychological aspects; Fear; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: With us and against us: Chuck Palahniuk's homegrown terror of the 1990s; title: Falling towers, falling planes, and falling men: trauma as domestic drama; title: War on terror: our monsters, ourselves; title: We have to go back: television's lost after 9/11; title: 9/11 did not take place: apocalypse and amnesia in film and Cormac McCarthy's the road; title: Bedtime stories after the end of the world: the Hunger games in a future of fear; title: the absurd hero: escapism, the Dark knight trilogy, and the literature of struggle; title: conclusion: Undo: is the sky falling?