Reframing 9/11
Subtitle: film, popular culture and the "war on terror"
By: edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781441111326; 9781441119056
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell; title: (Re)creating language. Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide; title: The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges; title: 9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone; title: Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent; title: 9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead; title: An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein; title: The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur; title: Visions of war and terror. Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale; title: The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney; title: Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans; title: The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh; title: "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell; title: The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs; title: Prophetic Narratives. Governing fear in the Iron cage of rationalism : Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 looking glass / David H. Price; title: Cultural anxiety, moral clarity and willful amnesia : filming Philip K. Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin; title: Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula; title: Afterword / John G. Cawelti.