Reframing 9/11

Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This is a collection of analyses that focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events. September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after 'everything' changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that have changed and continue to change. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-01
Mått:170 x 244 x 16 mm
Vikt:613 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441111326

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jeff Birkenstein is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington Anna Froula is an assistant professor of film studies at East Carolina University. Dr. Karen Randell is a Principal Lecturer in Film at Southampton Solent University, UK where she is Programme Leader for Film and Television.

Recensioner i media

Looking well beyond the most obvious and familiar tales of contemporary terrorism and counter-terrorism to survey a twenty-first century America burdened and buoyed by a decade-long War on Terror, Reframing 9/11 offers an ambitious collection of theoretically savvy commentaries focusing on a wide array of popular texts, from zombie movies and video games to the Left Behind bestsellers and Bruce Springsteen's The Rising. Together, these essays explore the multivocal, disturbing, and tangled legacy of 9/11 as it reverberates culturally, politically, and socially through a globally stretched and strained America. --Gregory A. Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; Foreword: Reza Aslan; Introduction: Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell; Section Two: Visions of War and Terror; Section Three: Prophetic Narratives; Afterword: John Cawelti; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.