TY - BOOK AU - Wegner,Phillip E. TI - Life between two deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. culture in the long nineties T2 - Post-contemporary interventions SN - 9780822344582 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - 002 E 169.12 W412l 2009 U1 - 973.92 PY - 2009/// CY - Durham [NC] PB - Duke University Press KW - Nineteen nineties KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - 1970- KW - History KW - 1969- KW - Estados Unidos KW - Civilización KW - Historia N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index; Introduction: the present as a moment of danger -- The two deaths of the 1990s -- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld -- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films -- A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear -- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog -- A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day -- As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy -- We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels ER -