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  • The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

    by Vanessa Ossa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness at home. The missing link between these two is the sleeper ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11

    Medial Reflections

    Edited by Vanessa Ossa, David Scheu, Lukas R.A. Wilde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This volumeinvestigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US-American political, social, and cultural order, the chapters reach from the early days after the attacks up to the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump.An international team ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Playful Participatory Practices

    Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

    Edited by Pablo Abend, Benjamin Beil, Vanessa Ossa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research. The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts and methodologies that work within participatory media cultures. Therefore the articles explore and establish nuanced approaches ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Conspiracy Culture

    From Kennedy to The X Files

    by Dr Peter Knight, Peter Knight ...
    Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    by Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • About to Die

    How News Images Move the Public

    by Barbie Zelizer ...
    Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Horror after 9/11

    World of Fear, Cinema of Terror

    Edited by Aviva Briefel, Sam J. Miller ...
    Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box-office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming darker, more disturbing, and increasingly apocalyptic. Why has horror suddenly become more popular, and what does this say about us? ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • International Politics and Film

    Space, Vision, Power

    by Sean Carter, Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes—borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant others—the territorial and imaginative dimensions of international affairs in particular are highlighted. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The American Nightmare

    Don Delillo's Falling Man and Cormac Mccarthy's the Road

    by Özden Sözalan ...
    The American Nightmare: Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Cormac McCarthy's The Road presents an extensive analysis of two novels by the two most prominent contemporary American writers.The book searches into the stylistic and linguistic complexities of those two post-9/11 novels and explores the ways in which they respond to the public discourse produced in the aftermath of the event. Szalan's ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Hollywood and the CIA

    Cinema, Defense and Subversion

    by Oliver Boyd Barrett, David Herrera, James Baumann ...
    Series series Media, War and Security
    This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy.As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an exceptionally well known national and international icon or even "brand," one that exercises a powerful ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Post-9/11 Cinema

    Through a Lens Darkly

    by John Markert ...
    In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth, behind-the-scenes footage, whether in a documentary or recreated in fictional features. More than fleeting scenes of events shown on the nightly news, a film can influence people's feelings about war and what our ... Read more

    $80.99 USD