Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century

Elena Caoduro is Lecturer in Media Analysis at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Her research on contemporary European cinema, analogue nostalgia, trauma, and memory of terrorism has been published in edited collections and journals, including Networking Knowledge, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies.

Karen Randell is Professor of Film and Culture at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, where she is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Research Institute of Media and Performance. She has coedited seven books including The War Body on Screen (2008), Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror" (2010), and Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema (2012). She is published in Screen (2003), Cinema Journal 51:1 (2011), and Cinema Journal 56:1 (2016).

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is Professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University, USA. She is Co-Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. New Perspectives on the War Film was published by Palgrave in 2019. She has also co-edited The Handmaid's Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance (2019) and, most recently, Black Panther: Afrofuturism, Gender, Identity and the Re-Making of Blackness (2021).

Mediated Terrorism in the 21^st Century offers new interpretations of figures emerging from representations of terrorism and counterterrorism: the male hero, female agent, religious leader, victim/perpetrator, and survivor. This collection of essays by a broad array of international scholars reflects the altered image-making processes that have developed from George W. Bush's "war on terror." Building on current literature on media and terrorism, this volume analyzes the most recent technological developments that have impacted the way we experience terrorism: online videos, social media, cartoons, media feeds, and drones. The authors address different time periods, different terrorist groups, and explore the way filmmakers and television producers from the USA, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East are documenting modern wars in popular culture.

Preface - Sean Redmond.- 1. Introduction - Elena Caoduro, Karen Randell, and Karen A. Ritzenhoff.- 2. Paradise Now (2005) - Robert Burgoyne.- 3. Munich: Spielberg and Terrorism - Frederick Wasser.- 4. Spinning Terror on TV: How The Grid Taught Us What To Fear - Dahlia Schweitzer.- 5. "God, I Miss the Cold War": The Imagination of Terrorism on Post 9/11 American Television - Ariel Avissar.- 6. Battling it out with Memes: Contesting Islamic Radicalism on Indonesian Social Media - Leonie Schmidt.- 7. 1984: Gauri Gill's Photo Narrativization of the (Continuing) "Horrors of Those Weeks" - Harveen Sachdeva Mann.- 8. The Pencil is Mightier than the Kalashnikov: What Cartoons can tell us about our Misunderstanding of Terrorist Acts in the Wake of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre - Matt Leggatt.- 9. Return to Entebbe: CineTerrorism as Contested Memory - Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.- 10. In the Fade (Fatih Akin, 2017): Motherhood, Grief, and Neo-Nazi Terrorism - Elena Caoduro.- 11. Tales of Revenge and Chaos: Exploring Terrorism's Discursive Use in The Dark Knight (2008) and Skyfall (2012) - Charles-Antoine Courcoux.- 12. Terrorism and Gender in Eye in the Sky and Zero Dark Thirty: Women and Girls on the War Front in Contemporary Cinema - Karen A. Ritzenhoff.- 13. Afterword - Stacey Takacs.