LEADER 03635nam 22005655 450 001 9910639889603321 005 20251009095756.0 010 $a9783031115165$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031115158 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-11516-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7165725 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7165725 035 $a(CKB)25913954200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-11516-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925913954200041 100 $a20221224d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media /$fby Vanessa Ossa 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Ossa, Vanessa The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031115158 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a 1. Introduction -- 2. Fiction, 9/11, and the Sleeper Agent -- 3. The Sleeper in Hollywood Cinema after 9/11 -- 4. The Sleeper in US TV Series after 9/11 -- 5. The Sleeper in Comic Books after 9/11 -- 6. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness at home. The missing link between these two is the sleeper agent ? the foreign enemy hiding among US citizens. By analyzing popular television shows, several US comic books, and a broad variety of Hollywood films that depict sleeper agents direct or allegorically, this book explores how a shift in perspective?from terrorist to sleeper agent?brings new insights into our understanding of post-9/11 representations of terrorism. The book?s interdisciplinary focus between media studies, cultural studies, and American studies, suggests that it will find an audience in a variety of fields, including historical research, narratology, popular culture, as well asmedia and terrorism studies. Vanessa Ossa is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Applied Science in Cologne, Germany. She is a former member of the Collaborative Research Center 923 ?Threatened Order?Societies under Stress,? in Tübingen and co-editor of, ?Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections.? Her research focuses on narrative representations of post-9/11 terrorism and transmedial narratology, with a particular interest in films, fictional television, comic books, video games, and related participatory practices. 606 $aMotion pictures, American 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$xInfluence on mass media 606 $aAmerican Film and TV 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aComics Studies 615 0$aMotion pictures, American. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xInfluence on mass media. 615 14$aAmerican Film and TV. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aComics Studies. 676 $a353.0013242 676 $a303.6250973 700 $aOssa$b Vanessa$01274894 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910639889603321 996 $aThe Sleeper Agent in Post-9$93003908 997 $aUNINA