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The Resource September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture, Christine Muller

September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture, Christine Muller

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September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture
Title
September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma
Title remainder
a case study through popular culture
Statement of responsibility
Christine Muller
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Language
eng
Summary
This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change. The attacks confounded the traditionally dominant narrative of the American Dream, which has persistently and pervasively featured optimism and belief in a just world that affirms and rewards self-determination. This shattering of a worldview fundamental to mainstream experience and cultural understanding in the United States has manifested as a cultural trauma throughout popular culture in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Popular press oral histories, literary fiction, television, and film are among the multiple, ubiquitous sites evidencing preoccupations with existential crisis, vulnerability, and moral ambivalence, with fate, no-win scenarios, and anti-heroes now pervading commonly-told and readily-accessible stories. Christine Muller examines how popular culture affords sites for culturally-traumatic events to manifest and how readers, viewers, and other audiences negotiate their fallout
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YDX
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1975-
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Muller, Christine
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture, Christine Muller
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : September 11, 2001, cultural trauma, and popular culture -- Popular press oral histories of September 11 -- Limning the :howling space" of September 11 through Don DeLillo's Falling man -- The crisis fetish in post-September 11 American television -- "Nothing to do with all your strength" : power, choice, and September 11 in The dark knight -- Zero dark thirty and the fantasy of closure -- Conclusion : cultural trauma : September 11 , 2001, and beyond
Control code
962009306
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
xvi, 220 pages
Isbn
9783319501543
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)962009306
Label
September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture, Christine Muller
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : September 11, 2001, cultural trauma, and popular culture -- Popular press oral histories of September 11 -- Limning the :howling space" of September 11 through Don DeLillo's Falling man -- The crisis fetish in post-September 11 American television -- "Nothing to do with all your strength" : power, choice, and September 11 in The dark knight -- Zero dark thirty and the fantasy of closure -- Conclusion : cultural trauma : September 11 , 2001, and beyond
Control code
962009306
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
xvi, 220 pages
Isbn
9783319501543
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)962009306

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