Media Representations Of September 11

Author : Steven Chermak Ph.D.,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313016257

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Media Representations of September 11 by Steven Chermak Ph.D.,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown Pdf

The terrorist attacks on September 11th were unique and unprecedented in many ways, but the day will stand in our memories particularly because of our ability to watch the spectacle unfold. The blazing towers crumbling into dust, black smoke rising from the Pentagon, the unrecognizable remains of a fourth airplane in a quiet Pennsylvania field—these images, while disturbing and surreal, provide an important vehicle for interdisciplinary dialogue within media studies, showing us how horrific national disasters are depicted in various media. Each contributor to this volume offers a fresh, engaging perspective on how the media transformed the 9/11 crisis into an ideological tour de force, examining why certain readings of these events were preferred, and discussing the significance of those preferred meanings. Yet the contributors do not limit themselves to such standard news mediums such as newspapers and television. This anthology also covers comic books, songs, advertising, Web sites, and other non-traditional media outlets. Using a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore such topics as the amount of time dedicated to coverage, how the attacks were presented in the United States and abroad, how conflicting viewpoints were addressed, and how various artistic outlets dealt with the tragedy. Offering a unique approach to a topic of enduring interest and importance, this volume casts a new light on considerations of that day.

Author : Steven M. Chermak,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132047664

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Media Representations of September 11th by Steven M. Chermak,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown Pdf

Author : Marita Gronnvoll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136950001

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Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11 by Marita Gronnvoll Pdf

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage to such scrutiny, she finds that cases of American personnel engaging in torture achieved notoriety chiefly because of the fact that women were perpetrators. The language of commentators suggests at least as much social outrage over the gender performance of the women as over the fact of torture being committed by Americans. At the same time, political and social discourses sketch a portrait of an intractable enemy in the form of the Muslim "Other" and betray a longing for a savior warrior hero who is capable of prevailing over this perceived "evil." Yet, news coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay suggests women warriors are socially perceived as lacking the necessary qualifications to be such saviors. This finding provides a transition into an examination of popular entertainment television programs that feature male and female heroes as government agents engaged in fighting the war on terrorism. Ultimately, Gronnvoll's analysis suggests that a Western cultural longing for a savior is partially fulfilled through fictional programming portrayals of masculine warriors who engage in torture and remain heroic.

Author : Evelyn Alsultany
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814707319

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Arabs and Muslims in the Media by Evelyn Alsultany Pdf

After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.

Author : Evelyn Alsultany
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814738146

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Arabs and Muslims in the Media by Evelyn Alsultany Pdf

After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.

Author : John N. Duvall,Robert P. Marzec
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421417394

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Narrating 9/11 by John N. Duvall,Robert P. Marzec Pdf

Contemporary fiction takes on 9/11, interrogating the global expansion of surveillance based on fantasies of US national security. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration’s policies on preemptive war, extraordinary rendition, torture abroad, and the suspension of privacy rights and civil liberties at home. Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Donald Pease, the contributors focus on the ways in which post-9/11 narratives help make visible the fantasies that attempt to justify the ongoing state of exception and American exceptionalism. Narrating 9/11 examines a variety of contemporary narratives as they relate to the cultural construction of the neoliberal nation-state, a role that mediates the possibilities of ethnic and religious identity as well as the ability to imagine terrorism. Touching on some of the mainstays of 9/11 fiction, including Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and John Updike’s Terrorist, the book expands this particular canon by considering the work of such writers as Jess Walter, William Gibson, Lauren Groff, Ken Kalfus, Ian McEwan, Philip Roth, John le Carré, Laila Halaby, Michael Chabon, and Jarett Kobek. Narrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series Lost and the film Paradise Now.

Author : Sara E. Quay,Amy M. Damico
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216143451

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September 11 in Popular Culture by Sara E. Quay,Amy M. Damico Pdf

This book offers an exploration of the comprehensive impact of the events of September 11, 2001, on every aspect of American culture and society. On Thanksgiving day after September 11, 2001, comic strip creators directed readers to donate money in their artwork, generating $50,000 in relief funds. The world's largest radio network, Clear Channel, sent a memo to all of its affiliated stations recommending 150 songs that should be eliminated from airplay because of assumptions that their lyrics would be perceived as offensive in light of the events of 9/11. On the first anniversary of September 11th, choirs around the world performed Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 am in each time zone, the time of the first attack on the World Trade Center. These examples are just three of the ways the world—but especially the United States—responded to the events of September 11, 2001. Each chapter in this book contains a chronological overview of the sea of changes in everyday life, literature, entertainment, news and media, and visual culture after September 11. Shorter essays focus on specific books, TV shows, songs, and films.

Author : Véronique Bragard,,Christophe Dony,Warren Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786488964

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Portraying 9/11 by Véronique Bragard,,Christophe Dony,Warren Rosenberg Pdf

Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of September 11, 2001, struggle to create meaning in the face of such powerful experiences. This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre. It examines historical, political, cultural, and personal meanings of the disaster and its aftermath through critical discussions of Marvel and New Yorker comics, American and British novels, Hollywood films, and the plays of Anne Nelson.

Author : Diana Gonçalves
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110477689

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9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity by Diana Gonçalves Pdf

Departing from 9/11’s spectacularity and aesthetical appeal, its eskatastrophic dimension, this book takes up the task of studying 9/11 as a mnemonic singularity, i.e. a catastrophic event that evokes or mimics, albeit in a renewed situation, the structure of past catastrophes. It investigates how 9/11 has been represented/remediated and how it has reintroduced catastrophic thinking into our conceptual framework.

Author : Paul Arras
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666932645

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American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks by Paul Arras Pdf

This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News, arguing that television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.

Author : Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482094

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Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations by Natascha Gentz,Stefan Kramer Pdf

Explores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities.

Author : Susanne Ehrenreich-Blažeković
Publisher : Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Regensburg Studies in British and American Languages and Cultures
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132450813

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Intermedial Representations of 9/11 in U.S. American and German Newspapers by Susanne Ehrenreich-Blažeković Pdf

For many weeks, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 dominated the newspapers which covered the consequences with an unprecedented immediateness. This study looks at diverging representations of 9/11 in U.S. and German newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung) and explores effects on its possible readerships. The impact of the attacks, forms of heroism, the enactment of leadership, various demonstrations of patriotism and grief as well as the textual and visual presentation of the attacks are analyzed in detail. These intermedial representations reaffirm or contest U.S. American grand narratives. While the German newspapers tend to focus on information and analysis, the U.S. papers tend to strengthen shattered U.S. American identity constructions. The study is based on nearly 2,000 newspaper articles and documents the wide scope of topics prevalent in the post-9/11 newspaper coverage.

Author : P. Liao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137297372

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'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction by P. Liao Pdf

While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions.

Author : David Holloway
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748632411

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9/11 and the War on Terror by David Holloway Pdf

This interdisciplinary study of how 9/11 and the 'war on terror' were represented during the Bush era, shows how culture often functioned as a vital resource, for citizens attempting to make sense of momentous historical events that frequently seemed beyond their influence or control.Illustrated throughout, the book discusses representation of 9/11 and the war on terror in Hollywood film, the 9/11 novel, mass media, visual art and photography, political discourse, and revisionist historical accounts of American 'empire,' between the September 11 attacks and the Congressional midterm elections in 2006. As well as prompting an international security crisis, and a crisis in international governance and law, David Holloway suggests the culture of the time also points to a 'crisis' unfolding in the institutions and processes of republican democracy in the United States. His book offers a cultural and ideological history of the period.

Author : Fawzia Reza
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498508612

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The Effects of the September 11 Terrorist Attack on Pakistani-American Parental Involvement in U.S. Schools by Fawzia Reza Pdf

This book examines the challenges that Pakistani-American families have faced in their attempts to assimilate within the U.S. school culture since the September 11 terrorist attack.