Introduction / Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell
(Re)creating language. Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide
The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges
9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone
Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent
9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead
An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein
The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur
Visions of war and terror. Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale
The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney
Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans
The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh
"It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell
The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs
Prophetic Narratives. Governing fear in the Iron cage of rationalism : Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 looking glass / David H. Price

Cultural anxiety, moral clarity and willful amnesia : filming Philip K. Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin
Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula
Afterword / John G. Cawelti.