Reframing 9/11
Subtitle: film, popular culture and the "war on terror"
By: edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell.
Contributors: Birkenstein, Jeff.; Froula, Anna.; Randell, Karen.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441111326; 9781441119056
Subjects: Terrorism in motion pictures; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Influence; Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States; Terrorism and mass media -- United States; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media; War on Terrorism, 2001- , in mass media
Other titles: Reframing Spec
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Reza Aslan; 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 (2006) / 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 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 Cawelti.