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War on Terror and American Popular Culture : September 11 and Beyond.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780838643396
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: War on Terror and American Popular CultureDDC classification:
  • 973.931
LOC classification:
  • HV6432.7 -- .W36 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Curious Knot -- Witnessing the Fall: September 11 and the Crisis of the Permeable Self -- Perpetual Media Wars: The Cultural Front in the Wars on Terror and Drugs -- Boring is the New Interesting: September 11, Realness, and the Politics of Authenticity in Pop Music -- Representing the Real on The Road to Guantanamo -- Tom Clancy, 24, and the Language of Autocracy -- Lost-A Post-September 11, Post-Oedipal American Jeremiad -- People have had enough tragedy": The Spectacle of Global Heroism in Superman Returns -- Deal with It, Sort of: The Picture-Book Treatment of September 11 -- A Day That Will Live in Irony: September 11 and the War on Humor -- I Could Smell the Dawn of Armageddon When this Dick Was Elected": Hip- Hop's Oppositional Voices in the War on Terror -- Attack of the Livid Dead: Recalibrating Terror in the Post- September 11 Zombie Film -- Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear: V for Vendetta, Batman Begins, Good Night, and Good Luck, and America's "War on Terror -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Curious Knot -- Witnessing the Fall: September 11 and the Crisis of the Permeable Self -- Perpetual Media Wars: The Cultural Front in the Wars on Terror and Drugs -- Boring is the New Interesting: September 11, Realness, and the Politics of Authenticity in Pop Music -- Representing the Real on The Road to Guantanamo -- Tom Clancy, 24, and the Language of Autocracy -- Lost-A Post-September 11, Post-Oedipal American Jeremiad -- People have had enough tragedy": The Spectacle of Global Heroism in Superman Returns -- Deal with It, Sort of: The Picture-Book Treatment of September 11 -- A Day That Will Live in Irony: September 11 and the War on Humor -- I Could Smell the Dawn of Armageddon When this Dick Was Elected": Hip- Hop's Oppositional Voices in the War on Terror -- Attack of the Livid Dead: Recalibrating Terror in the Post- September 11 Zombie Film -- Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear: V for Vendetta, Batman Begins, Good Night, and Good Luck, and America's "War on Terror -- Contributors -- Index.

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