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American popular culture in the era of terror : falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures / Jesse Kavadlo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavadlo, Jesse.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fear--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Fear.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Mass media.
- National characteristics, American.
- Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.
- Popular culture.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Psychological aspects.
- United States--Civilization--1970-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety -and, strangely, the wish fulfillment-that comes from the breakdowns of morality, family, law and order, and storytelling itself. From aging superheroes to young adult dystopias, heroic killers to lustrous vampires, the figures of our fiction, film, and television again and again reveal and revel in the imagery of terror
- 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: the Hunger games 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400611551
- 9798216046684
- 9781440835636
- 1440835632
- OCLC:
- 1413729520
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