DEATH PENALTY

9/11 Death penalty

9/11 Death penalty

Introduction

Popular culture and terrorism have an intricate, interconnected, and even interactive relationship. Certainly popular culture plays a crucial role in shaping American attitudes toward terrorism—after all, it is through movies, television shows, books, and video games that the vast majority of people are exposed to terrorism. These various elements of popular culture can reflect, frame, and reconstruct past and contemporary acts of terrorism to create mass shared experiences. Among the questions explored here with regard to the intersection of popular culture and terrorism are how much popular culture affects American attitudes about the terrorist threat; ...