Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games Danel Olson

Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031170157,3031170156

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031170180
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031170188
• Author(s): Danel Olson

After 9/11, the world felt the “shock and awe” 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.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction: The Sandstorm of War
1. Interpreting Gothic Presence Inside the Global War on Terror’s Novels, Comics, Movies, and Video Games Via Trauma Theory
Part II. Novels
2. Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006): Terrorism, Lovers, & WTC Apparitions
3. J. Robert Lennon’s Castle (2009): Behaviorism, Protégés, & Ghost Detainees
4. Joyce Carol Oates’ Carthage (2014): Death, Maidens, & Revenant Witnesses
Part III. Comics
5. Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine’s Army@LOVE (2007–2009): Recruitment, Orgies, & Hairy Monsters
6. Kyle Baker’s Special Forces (2009): Jihad, Infantrywomen, & Orphan Kidnappers
7. Frank Marraffino and Henry Flint’s Haunted Tank (2009–2010): Bastards, Civil War, & Spectral Generals
8. Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ The Sheriff of Babylon (2015–2016): Contracting, Insurgents, & Dead Policemen
Part IV. Films
9. Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005): Vigilantism, Poison, & Mad Doctors
10. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008): Interrogations, Lies, & Anarchic Jokers
11. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Prisons, Bombs, & Catalytic Catwomen
12. Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022): Assassinations, Gangs, & Conspiracist Riddlers
Part V. Video Games
13. Gonzalo Frasca’s Kabul Kaboom! (2002) and September 12th: A Toy World (2003): Motherhood, Blood, & Mortar Gunners
14. Cory Davis and Francois Colon’s Spec Ops: The Line (2012): CIA, Renegades, & Missing Civilians
15. Juan Benito and Jaime Griesemer’s Six Days in Fallujah (2022): Marines, Doors, & Furious Phantoms
Part VI. Coda
16. Debriefing

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