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Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of immense historical possibilities now at risk of being forgotten in the midst of the "war on terror." Wegner argues that 9/11 should be understood as a form of what Jacques Lacan called the "second death," an event that repeats an earlier "fall," in this instance the collapse of the Berlin Wall. By...

Shows how phenomena including globalization, neoliberal notions of the end of history, the growth of the Internet, the efflorescence of new architectural and urban planning projects, developments in literary and cultural production, turns in theory and philosophy, and the growth of the anti-globalization movement came to characterize the nineties.