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At war with the unknown: Hollywood, Homeland Security, and the cultural imaginary of terrorism after 9/11

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2015
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Frank, M. C. (2015). At war with the unknown: Hollywood, Homeland Security, and the cultural imaginary of terrorism after 9/11. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 60(4), 485–504.

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Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration established a security discourse based on the paradigm of "uncertain threats," characterizing the "war on terror" as a war against the "unknown." From the point of view of this new security discourse, counterterrorism should not confine itself to the accumulation of data concerning the goals, strategies, and means of terrorist networks. It also depends on ingenuity on the part of security analysts in the imagination of possible present and future events. Be

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60

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485

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Frank, M. C. (2015). At war with the unknown: Hollywood, Homeland Security, and the cultural imaginary of terrorism after 9/11. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 60(4), 485–504.

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