September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma

Christine Muller is Dean of Saybrook College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University, USA.  Her research focuses on popular culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century, particularly through the lens of post-September 11 cultural trauma in the era of the War on Terror.

• 1. Introduction: September 11, 2001, Cultural Trauma, and Popular Culture.- 2. Popular Press Oral Histories of September 11.- 3. Limning the “Howling Space” of September 11 through Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.- 4. The Crisis Fetish in Post-September 11 American Television.- 5. “Nothing To Do with All Your Strength”:  Power, Choice, and September 11 in The Dark Knight.- 6. Zero Dark Thirty and the Fantasy of Closure.- 7. Conclusion: Cultural Trauma: September 11, 2001 and Beyond.