The cultural imaginary of terrorism in public discourse, literature, and film : narrating terror / Michael C. Frank.
This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. It explores the ways in which clandestine political violence stimulates the collective imagination, a fact t...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism; 1 "Terrorism" and "Terror": Historical and Conceptual Frameworks; 2 Imagining Clandestine Operations: Early Literary Responses to Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism; 3 Terrorist Invasions in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction; 4 Terrorist Aliens: 9/11 and/in Science Fiction; 5 It Could Happen Here: Narrating Terror after 9/11; Conclusion; References; Index.