Philip E Wegner

Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001

U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at mass and genre fiction, film, and television, in an effort to periodize U.S. culture of the 1990s between the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and September 11, 2001.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344735
• ISBN-10: 0822344734
• Artikelnr.: 25943160

Autorenporträt

Phillip E. Wegner

Inhaltsangabe

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