Glen Donnar – författare

Understanding professional communication is essential for understanding how organisations and communication imagine, enact, and change their culture and lived realities. Professional Communication is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding and navigating the multifaceted, complex, and dynamic world of professional communication, including issues and trends in the field.Through real-world case studies and scenarios, Professional Communication explores key themes of technological disruption, industrial convergence, and the future of professional communication across increasingly complex platform ecosystems. It highlights the critical skills, core competencies, and ethical considerations necessary to navigate the evolving landscape and prepare students for diverse professional communication roles. As well as discussions on crucial ethical and cultural considerations in professional communication, the collection includes strategies for engaging diverse audiences and stakeholders. Showcasing practical guides for building effective communication strategies, the collection offers insights into trends in the field, the necessary skills for ever-changing roles in professional communication, and the increasing importance of fostering social good.The collection is divided into four major thematic sections, each of which details the increasingly blurred boundaries, convergence, and hybridisation of existing professional communication industries and disciplines. Reflecting the ever-changing nature of contemporary professional communication, the collection’s modular structure caters to students and emerging professionals across a range of disciplines, fields, and roles, providing a flexible resource for excelling in today’s and tomorrow’s evolving professional communication landscape.

Understanding professional communication is essential for understanding how organisations and communication imagine, enact, and change their culture and lived realities. Professional Communication is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding and navigating the multifaceted, complex, and dynamic world of professional communication, including issues and trends in the field.Through real-world case studies and scenarios, Professional Communication explores key themes of technological disruption, industrial convergence, and the future of professional communication across increasingly complex platform ecosystems. It highlights the critical skills, core competencies, and ethical considerations necessary to navigate the evolving landscape and prepare students for diverse professional communication roles. As well as discussions on crucial ethical and cultural considerations in professional communication, the collection includes strategies for engaging diverse audiences and stakeholders. Showcasing practical guides for building effective communication strategies, the collection offers insights into trends in the field, the necessary skills for ever-changing roles in professional communication, and the increasing importance of fostering social good.The collection is divided into four major thematic sections, each of which details the increasingly blurred boundaries, convergence, and hybridisation of existing professional communication industries and disciplines. Reflecting the ever-changing nature of contemporary professional communication, the collection’s modular structure caters to students and emerging professionals across a range of disciplines, fields, and roles, providing a flexible resource for excelling in today’s and tomorrow’s evolving professional communication landscape.

Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres - including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns - author Glen Donnar examines the impact of "terror-Others," from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood's attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting.Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history.

Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres - including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns - author Glen Donnar examines the impact of "terror-Others," from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood's attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting.Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history.