September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma
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September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma

A Case Study through Popular Culture

  1. 229 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma

A Case Study through Popular Culture

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319501543
eBook ISBN
9783319501550
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Prologue: The Case of September 11, 2001
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: September 11, 2001, Cultural Trauma, and Popular Culture
  5. Chapter 2: Popular Press Oral Histories of  September 11
  6. Chapter 3: Limning the “Howling Space” of September 11 Through Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
  7. Chapter 4: The Crisis Fetish in Post-September 11 American Television
  8. Chapter 5: “Nothing to Do with All Your Strength”: Power, Choice, and September 11 in The Dark Knight
  9. Chapter 6: Zero Dark Thirty and the Fantasy of Closure
  10. Chapter 7: Conclusion: Cultural Trauma—September 11, 2001, and Beyond
  11. References
  12. Index

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