Reframing 9/11 - Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"

Zusatztext Reviewed in Darkmatter. Informationen zum Autor Jeff Birkenstein is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. Birkenstein's major interests lie in American Literature post-1865, American and world short story, the short story sequence, and cultural and food criticism.  An edited collection of essays, Cultural Representation in the International Short Story Sequence (co-edited with Robert M. Luscher, University of Nebraska at Kearney) has just been accepted for publication.  He has published several papers in academic journals as well as book reviews, commentaries, essays and a short story.  He teaches a range of classes, from Freshman Seminar and Composition to African American Literature, The Short Story, Food & Fiction, and Narratives from the Aftermath of 9/11.  Birkenstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2003; he has a second MA in Teaching English as a Second/Other Language.    Anna Froula is an Assistant Professor of film studies at East Carolina University.  Froula teaches courses on war literature and film, American outlaws, national mythology, and film history, theory, and fundamentals.  She has published and presented on on representations of military women, masculinity, and World War II, Vietnam, and the "War on Terror."  She is currently working on a manuscript that explores popular representations of American military women from World War II to the present. Karen Randell is Deputy Dean of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Film and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is published on trauma in film in Art in the Age of Terrorism (2005) and in SCREEN. She is co-editor(with Sean Redmond) of The War Body on Screen (Continuum, NY: 2008) and Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (2005) with Jacqueline Furby. Klappentext A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.> Vorwort A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword: 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 t...

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jeff Birkenstein is an Assistant Professor of English at Centralia College, USA. Birkenstein's major interests lie in American Literature post-1865, American and world short story, the short story sequence, and cultural and food criticism. An edited collection of essays, Cultural Representation in the International Short Story Sequence (co-edited with Robert M. Luscher, University of Nebraska at Kearney) has just been accepted for publication. He has published several papers in academic journals as well as book reviews, commentaries, essays and a short story. He teaches a range of classes, from Freshman Seminar and Composition to African American Literature, The Short Story, Food & Fiction, and Narratives from the Aftermath of 9/11. Birkenstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2003; he has a second MA in Teaching English as a Second/Other Language.

Anna Froula is an Assistant Professor of film studies at East Carolina University.  Froula teaches courses on war literature and film, American outlaws, national mythology, and film history, theory, and fundamentals.  She has published and presented on on representations of military women, masculinity, and World War II, Vietnam, and the "War on Terror."  She is currently working on a manuscript that explores popular representations of American military women from World War II to the present.

Karen Randell is Deputy Dean of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Film and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is published on trauma in film in Art in the Age of Terrorism (2005) and in SCREEN. She is co-editor(with Sean Redmond) of The War Body on Screen (Continuum, NY: 2008) and Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (2005) with Jacqueline Furby.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeff Birkenstein, Jeff Froula Birkenstein, a (Ed) Et Al Froula, Anna Froula, Karen Randell
• Mitarbeit: Jeff Birkenstein (Herausgeber), Anna Froula (Herausgeber), Karen Randell (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.07.2010
• EAN: 9781441119056
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-1905-6
• Seiten: 256
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Medienwissenschaft