“The Dark Knight and the National Security State” Rodger A. Payne Professor and Chair Department of Political Science University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 R.Payne@louisville.edu Prepared for a panel on “Images of Terrorism and Counter -Terrorism” for the joint Annual Meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association; Austin, TX; November 14-15, 2014. Portions of this paper were presented at the joint Tenth International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference and Twenty-First Annual Scottish Word and Image Group Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, August 11-15, 2014.