Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents​ ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction The Present as a Moment of Danger 1
5. One The Two Deaths of the 1990s 17
6. Two October 3, 1951, to September II , 2001 Periodizing the Cold War in Don DeLillo’s Underworld 43
7. Three I’ll Be Back Repetitions and Revisions in the Terminator Films 60
8. Four A Fine Tradition The Remaking of the United States in Cape Fear 85
9. Five Where the Prospective Horizon Is Omitted Naturalism, Dystopia, and Politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog 117
10. Six A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day 137
11. Seven As Many as Possible , Thin kin g as Much as Possible Figures of the Multitude in Joe Haldeman’s Forever Trilogy 166
12. Eight We ’re Family Monstrous Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels 195
13. Notes 219
14. Bibliography 245
15. Index 261