by David HollowayFrom the publisher:
This series of textbooks focuses on key events in American history from the perspective of several different disciplines, offering the student a range of disciplinary perspectives on one particular historical event. Books in the series will be unique in focusing on one particular event from a range of viewpoints.
This multidisciplinary book discusses representation of 9/11 and the war on terror in the US. David Holloway argues that in the post-9/11 period, when many Americans felt remote from centres of political decision-making and power, culture and media provided the principal sites in which Americans, and others in the West, debated the meanings of contemporary events. Holloway argues that one common facet of US culture after 9/11 was its diagnosis of failure in key political institutions, amounting at times to a palpable sense of crisis in the values and mechanisms of the Republic - one important source of this being the contemporary observation that both 9/11 and the war on terror were products of American empire.
The book includes:
* separate chapters on key historical and political explanations and contexts;
* individual chapters on mass media, cinema, literature, and visual art/photography;
* a timeline, short synoptic biographies of key figures, and an annotated bibliography of recommended further reading
