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Gothic war on terror : killing, haunting, and PTSD in American film, fiction, comics, and video games / Danel Olson.

3031170164 electronic book
9783031170164 (electronic bk.)
9783031170157
3031170156

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

English

1 online resource (1 volume)

10.1007/978-3-031-17016-4 doi

PS374.G68 O47 2022

809.3/8729

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.

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