Author:
Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
Imprint:Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Description279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: the present as a moment of danger -- The two deaths of the 1990s -- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld -- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films -- A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear -- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog -- A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day -- As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy -- We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
