
Terror on the Screen
Witnesses and the Reanimation of 9/11 as Image-event, Popular Culture and Pornography
Luke Howie(Author)
New Academia Publishing, LLC
Published on 16. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-9828061-3-5 (ISBN)
Description
The 9/11 attacks have had many extraordinary consequences. The horrific violence of that day ushered in a different world, a different time. We have all become, in one way or another, witnesses in the global theatre of terrorism. Terrorists want their violence to take on a theatrical quality, and be watched. The 9/11 attacks were successful to this end. It was not long before our imaginations were running wild.
Many fields of post-9/11 popular, tele-visual and screen cultures changed substantially, other subtly.
"Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the Battlestar Galactica reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of "witnessing" have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade." -Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston.
"After reading Howie's ingenious updating of visual theory I would paraphrase Morpheus from The Matrix and say "welcome to the oasis of interpretation". This book is a much-needed analysis of the dangers to be found when a whole society risks living in an uncritical, ideological version of the witness protection program!" -Paul A. Taylor, University of Leeds, UK.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9828061-3-5 (9780982806135)
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