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Popular culture in the age of white flight fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles / by Avila, Eric, 1968-

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Reframing 9/11 film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin -- Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula -- Afterword / John G. …”
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Globalization and American popular culture by Crothers, Lane

Table of Contents: “…American Popular Culture and Globalization -- "American" Popular Culture in Movies, Music and Television -- The Global Scope of American Movies, Music, and Television -- The American Global Cultural Brand -- Global Trade and the Fear of American Popular Culture -- American Popular Culture and the Future of Globalization.…”
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Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / by Kroes, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Bush administration and European anti-Americanism -- The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11 -- Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world -- Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music -- A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained -- Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism -- American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects -- Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches -- Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative -- Taking exception.…”
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The war on terror and American popular culture September 11 and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.…”
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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Table of Contents: “…Vaillant -- An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. …”
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