The sleeper agent in post-9/11 media / Vanessa Ossa.
2022
P96.T472 O87 2022
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Title
The sleeper agent in post-9/11 media / Vanessa Ossa.
Author
Ossa, Vanessa, author.
ISBN
9783031115165 electronic book
3031115163 electronic book
3031115155
9783031115158
3031115163 electronic book
3031115155
9783031115158
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-11516-5 doi
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P96.T472 O87 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.6/250973
Summary
This 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 perspectivefrom terrorist to sleeper agentbrings new insights into our understanding of post-9/11 representations of terrorism. The books 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 as media 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 OrderSocieties under Stress, Bin Tubingen 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.
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SLEEPER AGENT IN POST 9/11 MEDIA.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.