Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.
Contents:
With us and against us: Chuck Palahniuk's homegrown terror of the 1990s -- Falling towers, falling planes, and falling men: trauma as domestic drama -- War on terror: our monsters, ourselves -- We have to go back: television's lost after 9/11 -- 9/11 did not take place: apocalypse and amnesia in film and Cormac McCarthy's the road -- Bedtime stories after the end of the world: the Hunger games in a future of fear -- The absurd hero: escapism, the Dark Knight trilogy, and the literature of struggle -- Conclusion: Undo: is the sky falling?
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