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American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror : Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures by Jesse Kavadlo (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101440835624

ISBN-139781440835629

eBay Product ID (ePID)208585005

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameAmerican Popular Culture in the Era of Terror : Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Media Studies, Anxieties & Phobias, Popular Culture, United States / 21st Century

TypeTextbook

AuthorJesse Kavadlo

Subject AreaSocial Science, Self-Help, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2015-017264

Reviews"Kavadlo's chapters are well-written and thoughtful. I have used some of these chapters in media criticism classes. . . . . This is an engaging critical analysis of American culture in the wake of terrorism and 9/11. It not only adds much to the scholarly discussion surrounding terror in our cultural narratives and cultural consciousness, but it is also a book that could add a lot to classroom discussions pertaining to the pervasiveness of American representations of terror, alternative narrative structures in television, or how culture affects popular culture narratives. His writing is accessible enough for undergraduate students while complex and thorough enough for any graduate student or advanced scholar." - The Popular Culture Studies Journal, "Kavadlo's chapters are well-written and thoughtful. I have used some of these chapters in media criticism classes. . . . . This is an engaging critical analysis of American culture in the wake of terrorism and 9/11. It not only adds much to the scholarly discussion surrounding terror in our cultural narratives and cultural consciousness, but it is also a book that could add a lot to classroom discussions pertaining to the pervasiveness of American representations of terror, alternative narrative structures in television, or how culture affects popular culture narratives. His writing is accessible enough for undergraduate students while complex and thorough enough for any graduate student or advanced scholar." -- The Popular Culture Studies Journal

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.2/40973090511

SynopsisBringing 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberE169.Z83K385 2015