Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century

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.