{"product_id":"terrorism-tv-stacy-takacs-9780700618385","title":"Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9\/11 America","description":"The Fox-TV series \u003ci\u003e24\u003c\/i\u003e might have been in production long before its premier just two months after 9\/11, but its storyline--and that of many other television programs--has since become inextricably embedded in the nation's popular consciousness. This book marks the first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9\/11 American television, critiquing those shows that--either blindly or intentionally--supported the Bush administration's security policies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStacy Takacs focuses on the role of entertainment programming in building a national consensus favoring a War on Terror, taking a close look at programs that comment both directly and allegorically on the post-9\/11 world. In show after show, she chillingly illustrates how popular television helped organize public feelings of loss, fear, empathy, and self-love into narratives supportive of a controversial and unprecedented war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTakacs examines a spectrum of program genres--talk shows, reality programs, sitcoms, police procedurals, male melodramas, war narratives--to uncover the recurrent cultural themes that helped convince Americans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and compromise their own civil liberties. Spanning the past decade of the ongoing conflict, she reviews not only key touchstones of post-9\/11 popular culture such as \u003ci\u003e24\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRescue Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSleeper Cell\u003c\/i\u003e, but also less remarked-upon but relevant series like \u003ci\u003eJAG\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOff to War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSix Feet Under\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJericho\u003c\/i\u003e. She also considers voices of dissent that have emerged through satirical offerings like \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Show\u003c\/i\u003e and science fiction series such as \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTakacs dissects how the War on Terror has been broadcast into our living rooms in programs that routinely offer simplistic answers to important questions--Who exactly are we fighting? Why do they hate us?--and she examines the climate of fear and paranoia they've created. Unlike cultural analyses that view the government's courting of Hollywood as a conspiracy to manipulate the masses, her book considers how economic and industry considerations complicate state-media relations throughout the era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerrorism TV\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh insight into how American television directly and indirectly reinforced the Bush administration's security agenda and argues for the continued importance of the medium as a tool of collective identity formation. It is an essential guide to the televisual landscape of American consciousness in the first decade of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacy Takacs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700618384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700618385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2012","brand":"Stacy Takacs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925720072447,"sku":"9780700618385","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fdb11174-a580-4a27-9d19-7c397c93b475.jpg?v=1681078950","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terrorism-tv-stacy-takacs-9780700618385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}