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The World Trade Center towers, iconic symbols of New York City, played a significant role in film and culture over three decades. Their striking architecture was designed to evoke powerful visual impressions, making them versatile backdrops in various movies, from comedies to thrillers. The towers conveyed a spectrum of emotions, enhancing narratives from the sublime to the sinister, thus leaving an indelible mark on both the skyline and cinematic history.

Don DeLillo is a phenomenologist of the contemporary technoscape and an ecologist of our new kind of natural habitat. This book examines the variety of modes in which DeLillo's fictions illustrate the technologically mediated confluence of his human subjects and the field of cultural objects in which they discover themselves.