{ "item_title" : "Terror on the Screen", "item_author" : [" Luke Howie "], "item_description" : "The 9/11 attacks have had many extraordinary consequences. The horrific violence of that day ushered in a different world, a different time. We have all become, in one way or another, witnesses in the global theatre of terrorism. Terrorists want their violence to take on a theatrical quality, and be watched. The 9/11 attacks were successful to this end. It was not long before our imaginations were running wild. Many fields of post-9/11 popular, tele-visual and screen cultures changed substantially, other subtly. Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the Battlestar Galactica reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of witnessing have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade. -Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston. After reading Howie's ingenious updating of visual theory I would paraphrase Morpheus from The Matrix and say welcome to the oasis of interpretation. This book is a much-needed analysis of the dangers to be found when a whole society risks living in an uncritical, ideological version of the witness protection program -Paul A. Taylor, University of Leeds, UK.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/98/280/613/0982806132_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "26.00", "online_price" : "26.00", "our_price" : "26.00", "club_price" : "26.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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