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American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror - Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures (Hardcover)
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American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror - Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures (Hardcover)
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Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this
book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative
dominated by the fear-and wish fulfillment-of the breakdown of
authority and terror itself. Bringing together disparate and
popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the
Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing
Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by
fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety -and, strangely,
the wish fulfillment-that comes from the breakdowns of morality,
family, law and order, and storytelling itself. From aging
superheroes to young adult dystopias, heroic killers to lustrous
vampires, the figures of our fiction, film, and television again
and again reveal and revel in the imagery of terror. Kavadlo's
single-author, thesis-driven book makes the case that many of the
novels and films about September 11, 2001, have been about much
more than terrorism alone, while popular stories that may not seem
related to September 11 are deeply connected to it. The book
examines New York novels written in response to September 11 along
with the anti-heroes of television and the resurgence of zombies
and vampires in film and fiction to draw a correlation between
Kavadlo's "Era of Terror" and the events of September 11, 2001.
Geared toward college students, graduate students, and academics
interested in popular culture, the book connects multiple topics to
appeal to a wide audience. Provides an interesting new framework in
which to examine popular culture Examines films, television shows,
and primary texts such as novels for evidence of cultural anxiety
and a preoccupation with terror Offers insightful and original
interpretations of primary texts Suggests possible conclusions
about cultural anxiety regarding breakdowns of tradition and
authority
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