Document Type
Article
Abstract
The TV series 24 was nothing but a filter of the widespread terror and unease unleashed after 9/11, depicting a claustrophobic world in which one’s own family and no-one else is to be trusted. For a decade this “real time” narrative has perfectly represented US paranoia. It depicts what Baudrillard calls the “American fear for self-destruction” which is still enduring today. While 24 underwrote the process of legitimating the use - and abuse - of force on the War on Terror, it also drew heavily on existing cultural archetypes of masculinity, heroism and national identity.
Repository Citation
Negri, Francesca. "The Depiction of Terrorism in 24: The Inescapable Catastrophe." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1–12. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss4/18