The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031115158)

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness at home. The missing link between these two is the sleeper agent - the foreign enemy hiding among US citizens. By analyzing popular television shows, several US comic books, and a broad variety of Hollywood films that depict sleeper agents direct or allegorically, this book explores how a shift in perspective-from terrorist to sleeper agent-brings new insights into our understanding of post-9/11 representations of terrorism. The book's interdisciplinary focus between media studies, cultural studies, and American studies, suggests that it will find an audience in a variety of fields, including historical research, narratology, popular culture, as well as media and terrorism studies.

Author: Vanessa Ossa
ISBN-10: 3031115155
ISBN-13: 9783031115158
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2023
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d