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What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest
- Author(s):
- Tobias Steiner (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- MS Screen Arts and Culture, MS Visual Culture, Speculative and Science Fiction, Television Studies
- Subject(s):
- Social justice, Television, Television--Study and teaching, United States
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- cultural forum, post-9/11, Trauma, Television studies, United States of America
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/p4rf-jx22
- Abstract:
- Discussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discursive space in which questions of justice, revenge, terror, and trauma continue to be negotiated in significantly changing ways. Doing so, it finds that those clusters occur within a processual shift of cultural focus away from the early one-dimensional call for easy justice through retaliation motivated by the national narrative of heroes vs. perpetrators, towards a multifaceted occupation with the problems that U.S. society has been facing over the last seventeen years.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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