The Impact of 9/11 on the Media, Arts, and Entertainment: The Day that Changed Everything? [Hardcover]

The Impact of 9-11 on the Media, Arts, and Entertainment is the fourth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? This volume's contributors include P.J. Crowley, Mel Dubnick, Nancy Snow, Mich?le Cloonan, and other leading scholars.Foreword; R.Stewart SECTION I: NEW NARRATIVES AND THE MEDIA Aggressive Action in Search of a Dominant Narrative; M.Dubnick, D.F.Olshfski ?& K.Callahan 9/11 and the Social Construction of a National Narrative; R.Jackson Battle of Narratives: The Real Central Front against al Qaeda; P.J.Crowley Islamic Terrorism: The Red Menace of the 21st Century; K.Wiegand Searching for the Public in a Time of Endless War; J.F.Tracy ? The Resurgence of U.S. Public Diplomacy after 9/11; N.Snow Leaving the Cave: Government, the Media and the Information Age; D.Bobiash? & S.Moore A Distracted Media: Sidetracked and Hoodwinked; L.Finnegan SECTION?II: THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Reading Afghanistan post 9/11; S.McClennen 9/11 in the Novel; K.Versluys Poetry, a New Voice for Dissent; M.G.Bouvard 'all language bankrupt': The Hip Hopoetics of Suheir Hammad; M.Newman Libraries, Archives, and the Pursuit of Access; R.J.Knuth? & M.V.Cloonan Hollywood 9/11: Time of Crisis; T.Pollard Screaming Her Way into the Hearts of Post-9/11 Audiences: Dakota Fanning as Child Star; K.Merlock Jackson Sporting Spectacle and the Post-9/11 Patriarchal Body Politic; M.Silk? & M.Falcous NASCAR's Role Post-9/11: Supporting All Things American; P.Haridakis? & L.Hugenberg

It s hard to imagine a more vital and absorbing subject than the one treated by a wide variety of thinkers in this volume. The impact of 9/11 will take years to comprehend in a full and appropriate way. Matthew J. Morgan has performed a heroic task here, assembling these essays that range over a vast array of topics related to the impact of this cataclysmic day on the interlocking worlds of media, arts, and entertainment. I learned so much from these essays, and I strongll^