The Impact of 9/11 on the Media, Arts, and Entertainment: The Day that Changed Everything?

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Aggressive Action: In Search of a Dominant Narrative....Pages 9-24
The 9/11 Attacks and the Social Construction of a National Narrative....Pages 25-35
The Battle of Narratives: The Real Central Front against AI Qaeda....Pages 37-50
Islamic Terrorism: The Red Menace of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 51-61
Escape from 9/11: Back to the Future of the Mass Society....Pages 63-75
The Resurgence of U.S. Public Diplomacy after 9/11....Pages 77-88
Leaving the Cave: Government, Culture, and the Information Age....Pages 89-98
A Distracted Media: Sidetracked and Hoodwinked....Pages 99-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Reading Afghanistan Post-9/11....Pages 119-140
9/11 in the Novel....Pages 141-150
Poetry, a New Voice for Dissent....Pages 151-163
“all language bankrupt”: On the Poetics of Solidarity....Pages 165-179
Libraries, Archives, and the Pursuit of Access....Pages 181-193
Hollywood 9/11: Time of Crisis....Pages 195-207
Screaming Her Way into the Hearts of Audiences: Dakota Fanning as Post-9/11 Child Star....Pages 209-219
Sporting Spectacle and the Post-9/11 Patriarchal Body Politic....Pages 221-233
NASCAR’s Role Post-9/11: Supporting All Things American....Pages 235-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-254