Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the bombing of the World Trade Center in September 2001 foste
Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the bombing of the World Trade Center in September 2001 foste
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Present as a Moment of Danger 3 1. The Two Deaths of the 1990s 17 2. October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Underworld 43 3. I'll Be Back: Repetitions and Revisions in the Terminator Films 60 4. A Fine Tradition: The Remaking of the United States in Cape Fear 85 5. Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism, Dystopia, and Politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog 117 6. A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living: Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day 137 7. As Many as Possible, Thinking as Much as Possible: Figures of the Multitude in Joe Haldeman's Forever Trilogy 166 8. We're Family: Monstrous Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's Parable Novels 195 Notes 219 Bibliography 245 Index 261
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Present as a Moment of Danger 3 1. The Two Deaths of the 1990s 17 2. October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Underworld 43 3. I'll Be Back: Repetitions and Revisions in the Terminator Films 60 4. A Fine Tradition: The Remaking of the United States in Cape Fear 85 5. Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism, Dystopia, and Politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog 117 6. A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living: Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day 137 7. As Many as Possible, Thinking as Much as Possible: Figures of the Multitude in Joe Haldeman's Forever Trilogy 166 8. We're Family: Monstrous Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's Parable Novels 195 Notes 219 Bibliography 245 Index 261
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