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Terror on the screen : witnesses and the re-animation of 9/11 as image-event, popular culture, and pornography / Luke Howie.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.S37 H69 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howie, Luke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sensationalism on television.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pictures.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in motion pictures.
- Terrorism on television.
- Terrorism in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : New Academia Pub., 2011.
- Summary:
- It has often been said that everything changed after 9/11. Popular, tele-visual and screen cultures were not immune. Television shows like 24, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy and American Dad, and movies like Team America: World Police represented the post-9/11 world in complex and symbolic ways. Television shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother and Dollhouse, and a Vogue: Italia fashion shoot grappled with the post-9/11 world through absences, presences and symbolic representations of cities and security. These are the artifacts of post-9/11 screen cultures, and witnesses cannot help but watch.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Witnesses and the re-animation of 9/11 as an image-event : Witnessing terrorism ; Welcome to the city, welcome to the desert of the real ; Celebrity terrorism: passion for the real
- pt. II. 9/11 as popular culture and pornography : Representing terrorism: re-animating post-9/11 New York City ; They were created by man ... and they have a plan: subjective and objective violence in Battlestar Galactica and the war on terror ; Post-9/11 comedy/trauma ; Terrorsex: witnesses, spectacular terrorism and pornography ; A screen culture of terrorism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-276) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.
- ISBN:
- 0982806132
- 9780982806135
- OCLC:
- 741252059
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