Contents

• Reinhard Isensee:
  Foreword: Picturing America, or Transatlantic Readings of American Cultural Narratives

• Philipp Kneis, Antje Dallmann:
  Introduction

PART ONE: PICTURING TRAUMA

• Eddie A. Bruce-Jones:
  Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark?
  A Critical Consideration of Two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial

• Anthony Enns:
  The Return of the Dead. Photography, Memory, and Mourning

• Manuela Mangold:
  The Body's Twist. How Does the Body Construct a Story?

PART TWO: PICTURING "REALITY"

• Michael Lattek:
  Abduction and Adoption. Tracing the Western in The Big Lebowski

• Chris Flor & Philipp Kneis:
  "Normal Again": Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Psychotic Narration

PART THREE: PICTURING POLITICS

• Antje Dallmann:
  Manchurian Candidates: Conspiracy Fiction, Visual Representation, and Masculinity in Crisis.
  Three Variations on a Popular Theme

• Florian Stenschke:
  U.S. Global Media: Enter/tainment, Enter/America?
  Introducing U.S. Entertainment as Symbol of Utopia and Transcendence

• Philipp Kneis:
  Communicating Democracy.
  Entering the American Republic Through The West Wing or the Commander in Chief

PART FOUR: PICTURING IDENTITY

• Alexandra von Barsewisch:
  Bordering on Images. A Cinematic Encounter at the US-Mexican Border

• Heike Toewe:
  The Use of Spectatorship in Spike Lee's Bamboozled

• Benjamin Letzler:
  "A Sliced Tomato You Have Maybe." Jewish-American Literature and the Question of Food

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