Loading…
Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television /
"As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone. Initially, filmmakers, writers, and other artists wrangled with its meaning, often relying on fantastical, ethnic, or exceptionalist themes to address the psy...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Paul Petrovic
- Counter-reactions against realism. Jess Walter's The zero: satirizing the "desert of the real" / Marjorie Worthington
- Memorializing post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city / Jeffrey Severs
- Never give a good politician time to pray: Stephen King's treatment of political power and community involvement in Under the dome / Tamara Watkins
- Which came first: zombies or the plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone one as Post-9/11 allegory / Anne Canavan
- A eulogy of the urban superhero: the everyday destruction of space in the superhero film / James M. Gilmore
- Perception, ideology and community. Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission / Amir Khadem
- Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds / Damon Barta
- "Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector / Paul Petrovic
- "I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty / Lloyd Isaac Vayo
- From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism / Deborah Pless
- Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad / Shana Kraynak
- Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited! / Ken Feil
- The human barnyard: rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana / Elizabeth Lowry
- The pain and prison of post-9/11 parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom / Megan Cannella
- How to get to 9/11: Teju Cole's melancholic fiction / Ariela Freedman
- Poetic responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's "The school among the ruins" / Lin Knutson
- International responses. "Some sense of bridge-making": exploring the relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Mira Nair's film adaptation / Laura Findlay
- Haunting cartographies: mapping the aftermath in Joachim Trier's Oslo, 31st August / Danica Van De Velde.