Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

447. Pop Culture and the War on Terror

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Coolidge, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Popular Culture

Presiding: Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason Univ.

1. “Apocalyptic Democracy and Iraq War Culture,” Joe Lockard, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

2. “‘America, Fuck Yeah!’: Patriotic Puppetry in Team America: World Police,” Anna Froula, Univ. of Kentucky

3. “Virtual(ly) Torture: Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, and the War on Terror,” Mark L. Sample, George Mason Univ.

4. “A Very Disturbed Place: Terror, Trauma, and TV,” Cynthia J. Fuchs

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