Life between two deaths, 1989 - 2001 U.S. culture in the long nineties

Introduction: the present as a moment of danger -- The two deaths of the 1990s -- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld -- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films -- A fine tradition : the remaking of the Unit...

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1. Verfasser: Wegner, Phillip E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham, NC u.a. Duke Univ. Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:Post-contemporary interventions
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: the present as a moment of danger -- The two deaths of the 1990s -- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld -- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films -- A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear -- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog -- A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day -- As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy -- We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [245] - 259
Beschreibung:279 S.
Ill.
24 cm
ISBN:9780822344582
978-0-8223-4458-2
9780822344735
978-0-8223-4473-5