The War on Terror : Post-9/11 Television Drama, Docudrama and Documentary PDF
by Derek Paget, Stephen Lacey
Part of the Contemporary Landmark Television series
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This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what is unavoidably through problematically and contentiously referred to as the resulting 'war on terror'.
The substantive part of the book is a series of independent chapters, each written on a different topic and considering different programmes. It includes series and single dramas representing the invasion of Iraq (The Mark of Cain, Occupation and Generation Kill), comedic representations (Gary, Tank Commander), documentary (the BBC Panorama's coverage of 9/11), 'what if' docudramas (Dirty War), 9/11 in popular series (CSI:NY) and representations of Tony Blair in drama and docudrama. The book concludes with an extended reflection on contemporary docudrama and an interview with filmmaker and docudramatist Peter Kosminsky.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:22/05/2015
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- ISBN:9781783162468
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:22/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783162468
