%0 Journal Article
%T EXAMINING THE RISK DISCOURSE IN TERROR MOVIES. Tourism and Risk after WTC attack
%A Korstanje Maximiliano E.
%J Tourismos : an International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism
%D 2012
%I University of the Aegean
%X World Trade Centre¡¯s attacks not only set precedents respecting to a new way of making terrorism but also paralyzed the mass-transport for more than one day. This generated a serious challenge for tourist industry to the extent of calling the attention of many scholars. On another hand, 11/09 acted as a conduit for the remake of many movies and films based on the vulnerability of American tourists when are out of home. Under such a context, the present research focuses on the analysis of discourse of four famous terror-related movies. The main thesis of this project is that September 11 attacks paved the ways for the advent of a new genre of terror movies based on sadism, ethnocentrism and the construction of a radicalized-otherness.
%K United States
%K World Trade Center
%K Terrorism
%K Terror Movies
%K Vulnerability
%U http://www.chios.aegean.gr/tourism/VOLUME_7_No1_art23.pdf