falling skies, dark knights rising, and collapsing cultures /
Jesse Kavadlo
xvii, 218 pages :
illustrations;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index
With us and against us: Chuck Palahniuk's homegrown terror of the 1990s -- Falling towers, falling planes, and falling men: trauma as domestic drama -- War on terror: our monsters, ourselves -- We have to go back: television's lost after 9/11 -- 9/11 did not take place: apocalypse and amnesia in film and Cormac McCarthy's the road -- Bedtime stories after the end of the world: coming of age in a future of fear -- the absurd hero: escapism, the Dark knight trilogy, and the literature of struggle -- conclusion: Undo: is the sky falling?
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Fear-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 21st century
Mass media-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 21st century
National characteristics, American
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-- Influence
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-- Psychological aspects