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Daniel Shields

Resources, homework and revision for Mr Shields English and Media classes. Cover photo Kristina Alexanderson / CC BY-NC-SA

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Post 9/11 Theorists

Those of you analysing the effects of 9/11 on the media may want to consider the work of David Altheide, Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (Global Crises and the Media). Or Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 by Richard Grusin. John Markert's, Post – 9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly is intriguing.
Dean Moulder has an interesting thesis on Post 9/11 filmmaking and representations of the 'other'. Also these journal articles may be of interest Bragard, Véronique, Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg, eds. Portraying 9/11: Essays on representations in comics, literature, film and theatre. North Carolina: McFarland, 2011.

Gopal, Priyamvada and Neil Lazarus, eds. After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2006. Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema Paperback – 24 May 2012 by Kevin J. Whetmore. Finally, Counter punch online may have some interesting things to say, although you may need your tin hat.

In the flesh


How does the clip use the audience's knowledge of the Zombie genre to engage their interest?

How does the clip represent terrorism?

How does the clip build the world of In the Flesh?