American popular culture in the era of terror : falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures / Jesse Kavadlo.

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 wi...

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Main Author: Kavadlo, Jesse, 1971- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2015]
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: With Us and Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk's Homegrown Terror of the 1990s; 2: Falling Towers, Falling Planes, and Falling Men: Trauma as Domestic Drama; 3: War on Terror: Our Monsters, Ourselves; 4: We Have to Go Back: Television's Lost after 9/11; 5: 9/11 Did Not Take Place: Apocalypse and Amnesia in Film and Cormac McCarthy's The Road; 6: Bedtime Stories after the End of the World: Coming of Age in a Future of Fear; 7: The Absurd Hero: Escapism, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and the Literature of Struggle. 
505 8 |a Conclusion: Undo: Is the Sky Falling?Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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