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03192aam a22003978i 4500 001 52B58B12C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 171008t20172017nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017008002 020 $a 1138683736 020 $a 9781138683730 035 $a (OCoLC)991851429 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d CDX $d EYM $d YDX $d HLS $d EUE $d DLC $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR830 T47 F73 2017 100 1 $a Frank, Michael C., $e author. 245 14 $a The cultural imaginary of terrorism in public discourse, literature, and film : $b narrating terror / $c by Michael C. Frank. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2017. 300 $a xi, 294 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 76 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- Introduction: the Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism -- "Terrorism" and "Terror": historical and conceptual frameworks -- Imagining clandestine operations: early literary responses to terrorism and counter-terrorism -- Imagining future attacks: turn-of-the-century tales of terrorist invastion -- "Terrorist Aliens": 9/11 and/as science fiction -- It could happen here: narrating terror after 9/11 -- Conclusion -- References. 520 $a "This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. It explores the ways in which clandestine political violence stimulates the collective imagination, a fact that has received little attention despite its cultural prominence. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film, but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the hypothetical can become difficult to discern. To illuminate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Terrorism in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Terrorism in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Terrorism $x History. 650 0 $a September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 $x Influence. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Frank, Michael C., author. $t Cultural imaginary of terrorism in public discourse, literature, and film $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2017 $z 9781315544397 $w (DLC) 2017050930 830 0 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 76. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706013841.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52B58B12C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search