American cinema in the shadow of 9/11 /

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film. Through a dynamic critical analysis of the defining films of the turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores and interrogates the i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McSweeney, Terence, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Temas:
2000-2099
Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Performing Arts.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures
Film
Elfter September > Motiv
Elfter September
Rezeption
United States
USA
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword / Alison Landsberg. Introduction: American cinema in the shadow of 9/11 / Terence McSweeney. Part 1 Dramatisations of the "War on Terror" : The mythic shape of American Sniper (2015) / John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
  • Responding to realities or telling the same old story? Mixing real-world and mythic resonances in The Kingdom (207) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) / Geoff King
  • Acts of redemption and "the falling man" photograph in post-9/11 US cinema / Guy Westwell
  • "You be very mindful of how you act:" post-9/11 culture and Arab American subjectivities in Joseph Castelo's The War Within (2005) and Hesham Issawi's AmericanEast (2008) / Paul Petrovic
  • Refracting fundamentalism in Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) / Ana Cristina Mendes and Karen Bennett. Part 2 Influences of the "War on Terror" : "Not now that strength:" embodiment and globalisation in post-9/11 James Bond / Vincent M. Gaine
  • Training the body politic: networked masculinity and the "War on Terror" in Hollywood film / Adam Knee
  • "Gettin' dirty:" Tarantino's vengeful justice, the marked viewer and post-9/11 America / Andrew Schopp
  • Stop the clocks: Lincoln and post-9/11 cinema / Ian Scott
  • Foreshadows of the fall: questioning 9/11's impact on American attitudes / Stephen Joyce. Part 3 Allegories of the "War on Terror" : "Daddy, I'm scared. can we go home?" Fear and allegory in Frank Darabont's The Mist (200 &) / Terence McSweeney
  • The terrible, horrible desire to know: post-9/11 horror remakes, reboots, sequels and prequels / James Kendrick
  • Post-9/11 power and responsibility in the Marvel cinematic universe / Christine Muller
  • Nowhere left to zone in Children of Men (2006) / Sean Redmond
  • Traumatise, repeat, finish: military science fiction (long) after 9/11 and Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (2014) / Steffen Hantke. Selected filmography
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Index.

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