Terrorism, Media, LiberationJohn David Slocum September 11, 2001 made the dangers of terrorism horrifyingly real for Americans. Although not the first or only attack on U.S. soil, its magnitude renewed old debates and raised fresh concerns about the relations between media and such events. How should the news-print, cable, network, radio, Internet-cover stories? What visual evidence does the public have the "right" to see and what is not acceptable to show to the viewing public at home? How can-or should-such events be retold cinematically? Bringing together fifteen classic essays by prominent scholars in a variety of fields, including history, international relations, communications, American studies, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies, Terrorism, Media, Liberation explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. Fundamental to the idea of terrorism is the psychological impact that violent acts have on those not directly involved. Essays examine concerns over the creation of spectacle and the propagation of fear and argue that the mediated ways the public learns about these events unavoidably shape our understanding of terrorism as a contemporary threat. With a thoughtful introduction by J. David Slocum, this timely and important collection provides a historical, rather than simplistically moral perspective on the current, thoroughly mediated, "war on terrorism." |
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Contents
Film and the Anarchist Peril | 37 |
Hitchcock as Saboteur | 56 |
The Film Presentation of Mau | 70 |
Colonial Struggle and Collective Allegiance | 94 |
Discourses of Terrorism Feminism and the Family in von Trottas | 111 |
Iran Islam and the Terrorist Threat 19791989 | 137 |
Simulations and Terrors of Our Time | 171 |
MassMediated Terrorism in the New World DisOrder | 185 |
Political Violence and the Myth of Atavism | 209 |
Images of Terrorism in Indian Popular Cinema | 232 |
Who Was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination | 248 |
The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror | 267 |
History Media Terror | 297 |
Contributors | 337 |
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