Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
This Reconstruction supplement is the latest phase of a process that, formally speaking, began as the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center crept into view. One of the supplement’s editors, Phil Hammond, organized the September 2010 Screens of Terror conference at London South Bank University, to initiate a discussion of how the news and entertainment industries had responded to the crisis. Many of the conference contributions were collected in Hammond’s anthology, published on September 11, 2011.[1] Meanwhile both editors set to work on compiling a special issue of Journal of War and Culture Studies (JWACS) dedicated to the same theme.[2] Upon being deluged with thoughtful contributions, we decided to pursue the discussion further within Reconstruction. The e-journal is an ideal venue for this endeavor, both due to its large readership – many outside the academy – and due its past and future commitments to interrogating such questions, evidenced by Cultural Productions of 9/11, edited by Christopher Schaberg and Kara Thompson (Reconstruction 11.2),] and a forthcoming issue entitled (In)Securities.
Repository Citation
Barnfield, Graham, and Philip Hammond. "War on Terror by Other Means: The Media Industries after 9/11." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1–6. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss4/10