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American popular culture in the era of terror : falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures / Jesse Kavadlo.
Van Pelt Library E169.Z83 K385 2015
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- 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
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