Tag Archives: Terror

Ideological Fission: Cloverfield and Terrorism

Inter-disciplinary.net and At the Interface holds a conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. I have had a paper accepted on Cloverfield and the evil of terrorism. The abstract is below.
Cloverfield’s monster is effective precisely because we never really see it, because it remains in our peripheral vision and seems […]

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John Updike, Terrorist

Updike’s new novel comes five years after 9/11 and takes those events as the starting points for a discussion of what fanaticism and terrorism mean. Rather than looking at terrorists as coming from outside the US, he investigates how domestic terrorists might think and why they would hate US culture and society. It is an […]

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John Junkerman & Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror

This documentary presents Noam Chomsky at three different lectures, as well as one interview. There has also been added a second interview after the credits, about the Iraq war. The film as film is nothing particular, nothing has been done to enhance or hinder anything. It is primarily a camera directed at Chomsky and little […]

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