| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 324 pages) |
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Palgrave gothic |
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Palgrave gothic series.
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| Contents |
Part I Introduction: The Sandstorm of War -- Interpreting Gothic Presence Inside the Global War on Terror’s Novels, Comics, Movies, and Video Games Via Trauma Theory -- Part II Novels -- Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006): Terrorism, Lovers, & WTC Apparitions -- J. Robert Lennon’s Castle (2009): Behaviorism, Protégés, & Ghost Detainees -- Joyce Carol Oates' Carthage (2014): Death, Maidens, & Revenant Witnesses -- Part III Comics -- Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's Army@LOVE (2007–2009): Recruitment, Orgies, & Hairy Monsters -- Kyle Baker’s Special Forces (2009): Jihad, Infantrywomen, & Orphan Kidnappers -- Frank Marraffino and Henry Flint’s Haunted Tank (2009–2010): Bastards, Civil War, & Spectral Generals -- Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ The Sheriff of Babylon (2015–2016): Contracting, Insurgents, & Dead Policemen -- Part IV Films -- Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005): Vigilantism, Poison, & Mad Doctors -- Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008): Interrogations, Lies, & Anarchic Jokers -- Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Prisons, Bombs, & Catalytic Catwomen -- Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022): Assassinations, Gangs, & Conspiracist Riddlers -- Part V Video Games -- Gonzalo Frasca’s Kabul Kaboom! (2002) and September 12th: A Toy World (2003): Motherhood, Blood, & Mortar Gunners -- Cory Davis and Francois Colon’s Spec Ops: The Line (2012): CIA, Renegades, & Missing Civilians -- Juan Benito and Jaime Griesemer’s Six Days in Fallujah (2022): Marines, Doors, & Furious Phantoms -- Part VI Coda -- Debriefing -- Closer to Carthage: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates (Conducted 15 July 2022 and Original to This Volume) |
| Summary |
After 9/11, the world felt the "shock and awe" of the War on Terror. But that war also exploded inside novels, films, comics, and gaming. Danel Olson investigates why the paranormal, ghostly, and conspiratorial entered such media between 2002-2022, and how this Gothic presence connects to the most recent theories on PTSD. Set in New York/Gotham, Afghanistan, Iraq, and CIA black sites, the traumatic and weird works interrogated here ask how killing affects the killers. The protagonists probed are artillery, infantry, and armored-cavalry soldiers; military intelligence; the Air Force; counter-terrorism officers of the NYPD, NCIS, FBI, and CIA; and even the ultimate crime-fighting vigilante, Batman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2023) |
| Subject |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in motion pictures.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder.
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American fiction
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
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Motion pictures
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Popular culture
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in motion pictures
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War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in literature
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War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3031170164 |
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9783031170164 |
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