Mediated terrorism in the 21st century 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Caoduro, Elena
• Randell, Karen
• Ritzenhoff, Karen A.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030735111

Series

Subject(s)

• TERRORISM AND MASS MEDIA
• TERRORISM ON TELEVISION

Notes

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Abstract

Offers a comparative survey of the complex and controversial encounters between the spectacle of terrorist violence, traumatic memory, and commemoration
Looks to shift the focus beyond 9/11 and the USA and considers international terrorism as a prism through which to understand our contemporary interconnected world
Considers the most recent technological developments which have impacted the way we experience terrorism: online videos, social media, GPS technologies, and drones

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxi, 289 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Preface - Sean Redmond --
1. Introduction - Elena Caoduro, Karen Randell, and Karen A. Ritzenhoff --
2. Paradise Now (2005) - Robert Burgoyne --
3. Munich: Spielberg and Terrorism - Frederick Wasser --
4. Spinning Terror on TV: How The Grid Taught Us What To Fear - Dahlia Schweitzer --
5. God, I Miss the Cold War : The Imagination of Terrorism on Post 9/11 American Television - Ariel Avissar --
6. Battling it out with Memes: Contesting Islamic Radicalism on Indonesian Social Media - Leonie Schmidt --
7. 1984: Gauri Gills Photo Narrativization of the (Continuing) Horrors of Those Weeks / Harveen Sachdeva Mann --
8. The Pencil is Mightier than the Kalashnikov: What Cartoons can tell us about our Misunderstanding of Terrorist Acts in the Wake of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre - Matt Leggatt --
9. Return to Entebbe: CineTerrorism as Contested Memory - Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann --
10. In the Fade (Fatih Akin, 2017): Motherhood, Grief, and Neo-Nazi Terrorism - Elena Caoduro --
11. Tales of Revenge and Chaos: Exploring Terrorisms Discursive Use in The Dark Knight (2008) and Skyfall (2012) - Charles-Antoine Courcoux --
12. Terrorism and Gender in Eye in the Sky and Zero Dark Thirty: Women and Girls on the War Front in Contemporary Cinema - Karen A. Ritzenhoff --
13. Afterword - Stacey Takacs.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00895/21	363.325 Med	Online !	Available