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Portraying 9/11 [electronic resource] : essays on representations in comics, literature, film and theatre / edited by Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 176 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780786488964 (ebk.)
  • 0786488964 (ebk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Portraying 9/11 : Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and TheatreDDC classification:
  • 810.9/35873931 810.935873931
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg -- Comics. Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, trauma kitsch, and popular memory / Timothy Krause -- Spandex agonistes: superhero comics confront the war on terror / Matthew J. Costello -- "Whose Side Are You On?" the allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel's Civil War / Stephan Packard -- Literature. September 11 and Cold War nostalgia / Aaron DeRosa -- Don DeLillo's Falling man: countering Post-9/11 narratives of heroic masculinity / Magali Cornier Michael -- Misplaced anxieties: violence and trauma in Ian McEwan's Saturday / Ulrike Tancke -- The mediated trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson's Pattern recognition and David Foster Wallace's "The suffering channel" / Marc Oxoby -- Performance. Terror and mismemory: resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United 93 / Gerry Canavan -- From Flying man to Falling man: 9/11 discourse in Superman returns and Batman begins / Dan Hassler-Forest -- Authenticating the reel: realism, simulation, and trauma in United 93 / Frances Pheasant-Kelly -- Connecting in the aftermath: trauma, performance, and catharsis in the plays of Anne Nelson / James M. Cherry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg -- Comics. Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, trauma kitsch, and popular memory / Timothy Krause -- Spandex agonistes: superhero comics confront the war on terror / Matthew J. Costello -- "Whose Side Are You On?" the allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel's Civil War / Stephan Packard -- Literature. September 11 and Cold War nostalgia / Aaron DeRosa -- Don DeLillo's Falling man: countering Post-9/11 narratives of heroic masculinity / Magali Cornier Michael -- Misplaced anxieties: violence and trauma in Ian McEwan's Saturday / Ulrike Tancke -- The mediated trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson's Pattern recognition and David Foster Wallace's "The suffering channel" / Marc Oxoby -- Performance. Terror and mismemory: resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United 93 / Gerry Canavan -- From Flying man to Falling man: 9/11 discourse in Superman returns and Batman begins / Dan Hassler-Forest -- Authenticating the reel: realism, simulation, and trauma in United 93 / Frances Pheasant-Kelly -- Connecting in the aftermath: trauma, performance, and catharsis in the plays of Anne Nelson / James M. Cherry.

Description based on print version record.