Book chapter
Movies Configure Politics: How Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir Shape Terrorism (Featuring Fight Club, Spy Game, and Swordfish)
Politics in Popular Movies, pp.162-184
Routledge
2015
DOI: 10.4324/9781315632759-19
Abstract
Terror, like panic, might be almost impossible to sustain. It strikes and spikes with virtual simultaneity; it decays nearly as fast. It consumes personal and historical moments that might last beyond minutes and hours to days and weeks, but it rages too hot and ranges too far to leave fuel for durable burns. This, unfortunately, is the good news. The bad news is that terror all too readily recurs; and when it doesn’t, it echoes-in some settings, seemingly without end.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Movies Configure Politics: How Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir Shape Terrorism (Featuring Fight Club, Spy Game, and Swordfish)
- Creators
- John S Nelson
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Politics in Popular Movies, pp.162-184
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315632759-19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Graduate College Operations Distr; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983983314002771
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