Reframing 9/11 Film, Popular Culture and the War on Terror [Paperback]

September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after everything changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11 share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official political rhetoric of the events of the The Global War on Terror and issues of national security.

AcknowledgmentsForeword: Reza AslanIntroduction: Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen RandellSection One: (Re)Creating LanguageChapter One: Fear, Terrorism and Popular Culture, David L. AltheideChapter Two: The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary US Cinema and TV Culture , Mathias NilgesChapter Three: 9/11, British Muslims, and Popular Literary Fiction, Sara UpstoneChapter Four: Left Behind in America: The Army of One at the End of History, Jonathan VincentChapter Five: 9/11, Manhood, Mourning, and the American Romance, John MeadChapter Six: An Early Broadside: The Far Right Raids Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Jeff BirkensteinChapter Seven: The Sound of the War on Terror , Corey K. CreekmurSection Two: Visions of War and TerrorChapter Eight: Avatars of Destruction: Cheerleading and Deconstructing the War on Terror in Video Games, David AnnandaleChapter Nine: The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's vision of a Post 9/11 America, Terence McSweel#¤