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Olson

Gothic War on Terror

Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games

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2023

324 S. XXII, 324 p..

In englischer Sprache

Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-031-17016-4

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Palgrave Gothic Progress in Mathematics

Produktbeschreibung

After 9/11, the world felt the "shock and awe" of the War on Terror. But that war also exploded inside novels, films, comics, and gaming. Danel Olson investigates why the paranormal, ghostly, and conspiratorial entered such media between 2002-2022, and how this Gothic presence connects to the most recent theories on PTSD. Set in New York/Gotham, Afghanistan, Iraq, and CIA black sites, the traumatic and weird works interrogated here ask how killing affects the killers. The protagonists probed are artillery, infantry, and armored-cavalry soldiers; military intelligence; the Air Force; counter-terrorism officers of the NYPD, NCIS, FBI, and CIA; and even the ultimate crime-fighting vigilante, Batman.