The 'War on Terror' : post-9/11 television drama, docudrama and documentary / edited by Stephen Lacey and Derek Paget.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lacey, Stephen, editor.

Paget, Derek, editor.

Series:

Contemporary landmark television.

Contemporary Landmark Television

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television.

Terrorism on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book deals with significant televisual responses to the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', with a focus on programmes from the UK and USA.

Contents:

Front Cover

Back Cover

Series Editors' Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Ways of Showing, Ways of Telling

2 Embedded Dramaturgy

3 Post-9/11 American Television Drama

4 The Comedy of Terror

5 The Paranoid Style's Traumatic Speculationsof Suffering

6 Mac and Monotheism

7 Britz, Contemporary British National Identity andthe 'War on Terror'

8 'It Won't Be Iraq They'll Remember Me For, Will It?'

9 Panorama's Coverage of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror'

10 Interview with Peter Kosminsky

Texts Cited

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

909143149