Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION I: (RE)CREATING LANGUAGE -- Chapter 1 Fear, Terrorism, and Popular Culture -- Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary US Cinema and TV Culture -- Chapter 3 9/11, British Muslims, and Popular Literary Fiction -- Chapter 4 Left Behind in America: The Army of One at the End of History -- Chapter 5 9/11, Manhood, Mourning, and the American Romance -- Chapter 6 An Early Broadside: The Far Right Raids Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- Chapter 7 The Sound of the "War on Terror" -- SECTION II: VISIONS OF WAR AND TERROR -- Chapter 8 Avatars of Destruction: Cheerleading and Deconstructing the "War on Terror" in Video Games -- Chapter 9 The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's Vision of a Post-9/11 America -- Chapter 10 Superman Is the Faultline: Fissures in the Monomythic Man of Steel -- Chapter 11 The Tools and Toys of (the) War (on Terror): Consumer Desire, Military Fetish, and Regime Change in Batman Begins -- Chapter 12 "It Was Like a Movie": The Impossibility of Representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center -- Chapter 13 The Contemporary Politics of the Western Form: Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood -- SECTION III: PROPHETIC NARRATIVES -- Chapter 14 Governing Fear in the Iron Cage of Rationalism: Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 Looking Glass -- Chapter 15 Cultural Anxiety, Moral Clarity, and Willful Amnesia: Filming Philip K. Dick After 9/11 -- Chapter 16 Prolepsis and the "War on Terror": Zombie Pathology and the Culture of Fear in 28 Days Later . . . -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.