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Terrorism, media, liberation

"Historical overview of terrorism and how it has been depicted in the media, especially films and television. In turn, these depictions have shaped terrorist tactics, and public reaction to terrorism"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2005
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2005
ix, 353 pages ; 26 cm
9780813536071, 9780813536088, 0813536073, 0813536081
56526469
Introduction : the recurrent return to Algiers / J. David Slocum
1. Film and the anarchist peril / Richard Porton
Disruption, destruction, denial : Hitchcock as saboteur / Susan Smith
Two faces of 1950s terrorism : the film presentation of Mau Mau and the Malayan emergency / Susan Carruthers
The Battle of Algiers : colonial struggle and collective allegiance / Murray Smith
Discourses of terrorism, feminism, and the family in von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane / E. Ann Kaplan
The television terrorist / Bethami A. Dobkin
Iran, Islam, and the terrorist threat, 1979-1989 / Melani McAlister
Simulations and terrors of our time / Robert Merrill
Mass-mediated terrorism in the new world (dis)order / Brigitte L. Nacos
Traditions of representation : political violence and the myth of atavism / Martin McLoone
Fragmenting the nation : images of terrorism in Indian popular cinema / Sumita S. Chakravarty
Who was afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the ethical imagination in Lumumba : La Mort du prophet / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Violence and vision : the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman
Theses on the questions of war : history, media, terror / Rosalind C. Morris
9/11 : before, after, and in between / James Der Derian