Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11
This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the US political, social, and cultural order, the chapters reach from the early days after the attacks up to the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump.
An international team of contributors analyze how the perceived threats and their subsequent representations changed during this period and what part different forms of mediamedia institutions, media technologies, and media formatsplayed within these transformations. Media theoretical perspectives are thus combined with historical approaches to examine the re-ordering of the nation, the state, and society proposed in an increasingly converging, multimodal, and networked media environment.
This books focus on the interrelation between Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and American Studies makes it an indispensable landmark for fields such as Historical Research, Media Theory, Narratology, and Popular Culture Studies.
Vanessa Ossa is a Research Associate at the University of Cologne. She is a former member of the Collaborative Research Center 923 Threatened OrderSocieties under Stress, and her PhD thesis, Sleeping Threats: The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media, investigates enemy stereotypes during the War on Terror.
David Scheu studied history and politics at the University of Tbingen and the University of Leeds. He has been working on his PhD as a research associate at the CRC 923 Threatened OrderSocieties under Stress. His main areas of interest are contemporary US foreign policy and the collective identity constructions within the United States.
Lukas R.A. Wilde is a Research Associate at Tbingen Universitys Department for Media Studies, Germany. His dissertation on the functions of characters (kyara) within contemporary Japanese society received the Roland-Faelske-Award in 2018. His main areas of interest are visual communication, picture theory, and media theory.
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Contents
VANESSA OSSA AND LUKAS R.A. WILDE
ANNE ULRICH
DAVID SCHEU
VANESSA OSSA
STACY TAKACS
TIMOTHY MELLEY
BERENIKE JUNG
THOMAS STUBBLEFIELD
BERENIKE JUNG AND LUKAS R.A. WILDE
RICHARD GRUSIN
Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has authored numerous chapters and articles and five books, including (with Jay David Bolter) Remediation: Understanding New Media (MIT 1999), Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 (Palgrave 2010), and Radical Mediation: Cinema, Estetica, e Tecnologie Digitali (Pelligrini 2017). Grusin has edited four books: The Nonhuman Turn (University of Minnesota Press 2015), Anthropocene Feminism (University of Minnesota Press 2017),After Extinction (University of Minnesota Press 2018), and (with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece) Ends of Cinema (University of Minnesota Press 2020). He is currently working on a small book on Donald Trump and total mediation.
Berenike Jung is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Kings College London. Previously, she held a post as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Media Studies, University of Tbingen. She completed her PhD in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick in 2016 (published as The Invisibilities of Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television [Edinburgh University Press 2020]). She has published widely on violence and ethics in film and on Chilean cinema. Her teaching and research interests include documentary film, popular culture, film/philosophy, transnational cinema, film theory, and digital media. In her current research she investigates the haptic, affective, and temporal logic of formats, screens, and images in applications such as GIFs and TikTok.
Timothy Melley is Professor of English at Miami University and Director of the Miami University Humanities Center. He is the author of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (Cornell University Press 2000) and The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State (Cornell University Press 2012). He is currently writing about the cultural politics of security.
Vanessa Ossa is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cologne. Following an education as a film, photography, and multimedia professional, she worked for several film and television productions. Turning from practice to theory, she studied Sociology and Economics of Media Culture at the University of Cologne, as well as Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD thesis Sleeping Threats: The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media, developed at the Collaborative Research Center 923 Threatened OrderSocieties under Stress, investigates enemy stereotypes during the War on Terror, with a special focus on narrative representations of post-9/11 terrorism in Hollywood cinema, US serial television, and comic books.
