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Record Nr.

UNINA9910639883603321

Autore

Olson Danel

Titolo

Gothic War on Terror : Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games / / by Danel Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031170164

9783031170157

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Gothic, , 2634-6222

Disciplina

306.09730905

Soggetti

Fiction

Goth culture (Subculture)

Motion pictures

Space

Culture

World history

Fiction Literature

Gothic Studies

North American Literature

Film Studies

Space and Place in Culture

World History, Global and Transnational History

America Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Jess Walter’s The Zero -- Chapter 2 J. Robert Lennon’s Castle -- Chapter 3 Joyce Carol Oates’ Carthage -- Chapter 4 Graphic Novels -- Chapter 5 Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Sommario/riassunto

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.