September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma

A Case Study through Popular Culture

AvChristine Muller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:423 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319501543

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Christine Muller is Dean of Saybrook College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University, USA. Her research focuses on popular culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century, particularly through the lens of post-September 11 cultural trauma in the era of the War on Terror.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: September 11, 2001, Cultural Trauma, and Popular Culture.- 2. Popular Press Oral Histories of September 11.- 3. Limning the “Howling Space” of September 11 through Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.- 4. The Crisis Fetish in Post-September 11 American Television.- 5. “Nothing To Do with All Your Strength”: Power, Choice, and September 11 in The Dark Knight.- 6. Zero Dark Thirty and the Fantasy of Closure.- 7. Conclusion: Cultural Trauma: September 11, 2001 and Beyond.