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The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness at home. The missing link between these two is the sleeper agent – the foreign enemy hiding among US citizens. By analyzing popular television shows, several US comic books, and a broad variety of Hollywood films that depict sleeper agents direct or allegorically, this book explores how a shift in perspective—from terrorist to sleeper agent—brings new insights into our understanding of post-9/11 representations of terrorism. The book’s interdisciplinary focus between media studies, cultural studies, and American studies, suggests that it will find an audience in a variety of fields, including historical research, narratology, popular culture, as well as media and terrorism studies.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-031-11515-8 / 978-3031115158 / 9783031115158

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2023

Seiten: 323

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Vanessa Ossa

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