Research Catalog

Title

Terror on the screen : witnesses and the re-animation of 9/11 as image-event, popular culture, and pornography / Luke Howie.

Author

Howie, Luke.

Publication

Washington, DC : New Academia Publishing, 2011.

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Description

x, 281 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

It has often been said that everything changed after 9/11. Popular, tele-visual and screen cultures were not immune. Television shows like 24, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy and American Dad, and movies like Team America: World Police represented the post-9/11 world in complex and symbolic ways. Television shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother and Dollhouse, and a Vogue: Italia fashion shoot grappled with the post-9/11 world through absences, presences and symbolic representations of cities and security. These are the artifacts of post-9/11 screen cultures, and witnesses cannot help but watch.

Subject

• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pictures
• Terrorism on television
• Terrorism in motion pictures
• Sensationalism on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-276) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Witnesses and the re-animation of 9/11 as an image-event -- Witnessing terrorism -- Welcome to the city, welcome to the desert of the real -- Celebrity terrorism : passion for the real -- Part II. 9/11 as popular culture and pornography -- Representing terrorism : re-animating post-9/11 New York City -- They were created by man ... and they have a plan : subjective and objective violence in Battlestar Galactica and the war on terror -- Post-9/11 comedy/trauma -- Terrorsex : witnesses, spectacular terrorism and pornography -- A screen culture of terrorism.

ISBN

• 0982806132 (pbk.)
• 9780982806135 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010934626

OCLC

741252059

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library