Description
Book Synopsis'Terrorism, Media, Liberation' explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. It provides a historical, rather than simplistically moral perspective on the well-mediated, ""war on terrorism.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Recurrent Return to Algiers by J. David Slocum
Film and the Anarchist Peril by Richard Porton
Disruption, Destruction, Denial: Hitchcock as Saboteur by Susan Smith
Two Faces of 1950s Terrorism: The Film Presentation of Mau Mau and the Malayan Emergency by Susan Carruthers
The Battle of Algiers: Colonial Struggle and Collective Allegiance by Murray Smith
Discourses of Terrorism, Feminism, and the Family in von Trotta's
Marianne and Juliane by E. Ann Kaplan
The Television Terrorist by Bethami A. Dobkin
Iran, Islam, and the Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989 by Melani McAlister
Simulations and Terrors of Our Time by Robert Merrill
Mass-Mediated Terrorism in the New World (Dis)Order by Brigitte L. Nacos
Traditions of Representation: Political Violence and the Myth of Atavism by Martin McLoone
Fragmenting the Nation: Images of Terrorism in Indian Popular Cinema by Sumita S. Chakravarty
Who Was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination in
Lumumba: La Mort du Prophet by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror by Allen Feldman
Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror by Rosalind C. Morris
9/11: Before, After, and In Between by James Der Derian
Contributors
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