Preface Heroes, Hype, and History Spinning and Counter-Spinning Jessica Lynch and Lynndie England Corporate Complications Sometimes Paranoia is Just Common Sense: Leaving Behind Da Vinci A Movie and a Funeral: Michael Moore and Ronald Reagan circa 2004 Conclusion: Fast Forward List of Works Cited Index
BRUCE TUCKER is a professor of History and Associate
Vice-President, Academic at the University of Windsor, Canada. He
is co-author with Zane L. Miller of Changing Plans for America's
Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth Century
Urbanism (1998) and co-editor with Philip J. Obermiller and Thomas
E. Wagner of Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the
Great Migration (2000). He has served on the program committee and
the international committee of the American Studies Association and
on the international committee of the editorial board of the
Journal of American History. He is currently a member of the
editorial board of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. His reviews
and articles on American intellectual and cultural history have
appeared in the New England Quarterly, American Literature,
Prospects, Canadian Review of American Studies, Appalachian
Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, American Studies, and
Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is currently working on a study of
the revolutionary tradition in modern American political
culture.
PRISCILLA L. WALTON is a professor of English at Carleton
University, Canada, and Director of the Carleton Centre for
Research in American Studies. She is also editor of the Canadian
Review of American Studies, and has published numerous books and
articles in the United States and Canada, including Our Cannibals,
Ourselves (2004) and co-authored Detective Agency: Women Re-Wrting
the Hardboiled Tradition (1999), Border Crossings: Thomas King's
Comic Inversions (2003), and others. She was the first Canadian
president of the International Narrative Society, President of the
Henry James Society, and President and Session Chair of the MLA
Division of Literatures Other than British and American. She has
also served on the PMLA Advisory Committee, and been a member of
the Program Committee of the American Studies Association.
'American Culture Transformed offers an interesting sampling of the cultural landscape in America after 9/11. The authors provide compelling snapshots of iconic moments and figures from the military, economics, the arts, and politics. The book will stir memories and make us uncomfortable again.' - Mary Poovey, New York University, USA 'With its clear methodology and its sweeping approach, Dialing 9/11 is an accessible and overall convincing approach to that recent decade.' -Transatlantica 'Published just months after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Priscilla L. Walton and Bruce Tucker's American Culture Transformed, by pertaining to both media and gender studies, strives to contribute a complementary and original point of view to the debates about the post-9/11 years...it is highly documented, accessible, and is pleasant to read for scholars or non-scholars interested in various aspects of American contemporary culture.' - Vincent Souladié, Media and Diversity, 2014
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