Terror on the Screen
by Luke Howie
Political sciencePerforming artsSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass mediaSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on televisionSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion picturesTerrorism on televisionTerrorism in motion picturesSensationalism on television
It has often been said that everything changed after 9/11. Popular, tele-visual and screen cultures were not immune. Television shows like 24, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy and American Dad, and movies like Team America: World Police represented the post-9/11 world in complex and symbolic ways. Television shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother and Dollhouse, and a Vogue: Italia fashion shoot grappled with the post-9/11 world through absences, presences and symbolic representations of cities and security. These are the artifacts of post-9/11 screen cultures, and witnesses cannot help but watch.
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