Gothic War on Terror

Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games
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After 9/11, the world felt the "e;shock and awe"e; 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.

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  • ISBN13 9783031170164
  • Released 2023
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Language English