1. Racialization, according to Silverstein, “refers to the processes through which any diacritic of social personhood—including class, ethnicity, generation, kinship/ affinity, and positions within fields of power—comes to be essentialized, naturalized, and/or biologized.” Paul A. Silverstein, “Immigrant Racialization and the New Savage Slot: Race, Migration, and Immigration in the New Europe,” Annual Review of Anthropology 34, no. 1 (2005): 363.
2. Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster,” in The Science Fiction Film Reader, ed. Gregg Rickman, 102 (New York: Proscenium Publishers, 2004).
3. Adam Lowenstein, Shocking Representations: Historical Trauma, National Cinema and the Modern Horror Film (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
4. Lynn Spigel, “Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11,” American Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2004): 235–270.
5. John Walliss and James Aston, “Doomsday America: The Pessimistic Turn of Post-9/11 Apocalyptic Cinema,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 23, no. 1 (2011): 53–64.