24

This is what I have obsessed myself with for the past week or so.

Anyway, watching 24 has made me ask several questions. I am sure there are academic papers that have raised the same questions.
1) what ideology of Americanism is the programme promoting?
2) why the significance of the idea of 'enemy'?
3) why does America receive so many terrorist threats and attacks in the case of season six, and why are countries such as China, Russia and the 'middle east' (I am very aware that the middle east is not a country, but the middle east is what it is referred to in the programme, they never select one particular country in the middle east).
4)why is it that Jack Bauer is always more than willing to sacrifice himself for the good of america, when America does not give two fking hoots about him?

Mmm... programmes like these make you think really hard. They make you wonder about loyalty to the nation. A superhero like Jack Bauer is too good to be true, yet he has existed in the American imagination for as long as I can remember. Whether we are talking about Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, mean man), Michael Dudikoff, who else...Arnold Schwarznegger (can obviously not get his name right) and in the black section, our very own Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington...single heroes determined --- oh, and Bruce Willis, even though they stretched the storyline in Die Hard.... to make America a better place. Why is this kind of representation important?

Oh, for Academic papers on 24, string into
http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/Pdf/AddCoversheet?xml=/mnt/pdfserve/pdfserve/247776-751318033-791439275.xml

and

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/8/1/7/pages238170/p238170-1.php

Just to see how seriously people take these things.

But Jack Bauer is unfortunately a very broken man. More than once, he goes on suicidal missions, and on one occassion, actually considers committing suicide (sorry, this may be a spoiler for those who havent watched Jack Bauer). His face, during this scene, mirrors the psychological loss of self that Jack is feeling inside, loss for the life he always wanted but never had. Afterall, his wife was brutally murdered, the only other woman he ever fell in love with has been tortured by the chinese and is now wacko, his only daughter has deserted him and replaced him with a lover whose Jack's age, and therefore the perfect father figure....

Yeah, neh

But let's all just enjoy 24, okay?