American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11

Herausgeber: Mcsweeney, Terence

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Produktbeschreibung

'Gripping and smart, American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a must-read for cinema students and researchers. It offers especially timely and important analyses of post-9/11 US film through a series of lucid essays that incisively explore how the traumas and anxieties of the terrorist attacks continue to haunt American identity and its imaginary. I can't recommended this book enough for anyone interested in the cultural function of film, narrative and allegory.' Anna Froula, East Carolina University 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 impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many others consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artefact, able both to reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also to shape them in compelling and resonant ways. Terence McSweeney is Lecturer in the School of Media Arts and Technology, Southampton Solent University. Cover image: American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, 2014 (c) Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Malpaso Productions/The Kobal Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1381-7 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781474431958
• ISBN-10: 147443195X
• Artikelnr.: 49094045

Autorenporträt

Terence McSweeney is Lecturer in the School of Media Arts and Technology, Southampton Solent University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction, "American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11"
PART ONE: Dramatisations of the 'War on Terror'
1. "The Mythic Shape of American Sniper (2015)" by John Shelton Lawrence
and Robert Jewett
2. "Responding to Realities or Telling the Same Old Story? Mixing
Real-World and Mythic Resonances in The Kingdom (2007) and Zero Dark Thirty
(2012)" by Geoff King
3. "Acts of Redemption and 'The Falling Man' Photograph in Post-9/11 US
Cinema" by Guy Westwell
4. "'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)" by Paul Petrovic
5. "Refracting fundamentalism in Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(2012)" by Ana Cristina Mendes and Karen Bennett
PART TWO: Influences of the 'War on Terror'
6. "'Not now that strength' Embodiment and Globalisation in Post-9/11 James
Bond " by Vincent M. Gaine
7. "Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the 'War on
Terror' in Hollywood Film" by Adam Knee
8. "'Gettin' Dirty': Tarantino's Vengeful Justice, The Marked Viewer, and
Post-9/11 America" by Andrew Schopp
9. "Stop the Clocks: Lincoln and Post-9/11 Cinema" by Ian Scott
10. "Foreshadows of the Fall: Questioning 9/11's Impact on American
Attitudes" by Stephen Joyce
PART THREE: Allegories of the 'War on Terror'
11. "Daddy, I'm scared. Can we go home?": Fear and Allegory in Frank
Darabont's The Mist (2007) by Terence McSweeney
12. "The Terrible, Horrible Desire to Know: Post-9/11 Horror Remakes,
Reboots, Sequels, and Prequels" by James Kendrick
13. "Post-9/11 Power and Responsibility in the Marvel Cinematic Universe"
by Christine Muller
14. "Nowhere left to Zone in Children of Men (2006)" by Sean Redmond
15. "Traumatize, Repeat, Finish: Military Science Fiction (Long) after 9/11
and Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (2014)" by Steffen Hantke
Afterword
Selected Filmography
Index