| Description |
ix, 353 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Rutgers depth of field series
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Rutgers depth of field series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Terrorism in motion pictures.
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Terrorism in motion pictures. |
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Terrorism on television.
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Terrorism on television. |
| Added Author |
Slocum, J. David (John David)
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| ISBN |
0813536081 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813536073 hardcover alkaline paper |
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