American popular culture in the era of terror : falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures / Jesse Kavadlo.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kavadlo, Jesse, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.
• Mass media--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Psychological aspects.
• Psychological aspects.
• Fear--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
• Fear--Social aspects.
• History.
• Mass media--Social aspects.
• Popular culture.
• United States--Civilization--1970-.
• United States.
• Civilization.
• National characteristics, American.
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 218 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2015]

Contents:

• With us and against us: Chuck Palahniuk's homegrown terror of the 1990s
• Falling towers, falling planes, and falling men: trauma as domestic drama
• War on terror: our monsters, ourselves
• We have to go back: television's lost after 9/11
• 9/11 did not take place: apocalypse and amnesia in film and Cormac McCarthy's the road
• Bedtime stories after the end of the world: coming of age in a future of fear
• the absurd hero: escapism, the Dark knight trilogy, and the literature of struggle
• conclusion: Undo: is the sky falling?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781440835629
• 1440835624

OCLC:

900016292