Terror and the Cinematic Sublime

Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post-9/11 Films
Herausgeber: Comer, Todd A.; Vayo, Lloyd Isaac

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection considers film in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media, including theatrical films by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee, and post-cinematic works by Wafaa Bilal, Douglas Gordon and Peter Tscherkassky, among others. All of the essays are written with an eye to what may be the central concept of our time, the sublime. The sublime--that which can be thought but not represented (the "unpresentable")--provides a ready tool for analyses of trauma, horror, catastrophe and apocalypse, the military-industrial complex, the end of humanism and the limits of freedom. Such essays take the pulse of our cultural moment, while also providing the reader with a sense of the nature of the sublime in critical work, and how it continues to evolve conceptually in the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780786472079
• ISBN-10: 0786472073
• Artikelnr.: 36596615

Autorenporträt

Todd A. Comer is an associate professor of English at Defiance College in Ohio and has published in such journals as SubStance, the Journal of Narrative Theory, and the Journal of Modern Literature. Lloyd Isaac Vayo is an adjunct instructor at Concordia University-St. Paul and has published in the Journal of Sonic Studies, Rhizomes and Popular Music and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Terror and the (Post)Cinematic Sublime Todd A. Comer and Lloyd Isaac Vayo
5 Hits and Missives: Excluding/Embracing 9/11 Plummeting to the Pavement: The Fall of the Body deleteSpider-Man Kartik Nair
15 When Does the Hurting Stop? Clover
eld and the delete(Re)Enabling of Fantasy in the Post-9/11 City Scott Wilson
29 Keeping Terror Alive: The Political Economy of Visibility deletein Inside Man Sven Cvek
42 Pushing the Enveloped: Exposing the Limits of Freedom Aronofsky's Cinematic Vision and the Ethical Meaning deleteFreedom as the Sublime Horizon of Amor Fati Donald Callen
57 The Apocalyptic Sublime: Hollywood Disaster Films and deleteDonnie Darko Seung-hoon Jeong
72 History Is Always Virgin: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious deleteBasterds and the Lyotardian Sublime Marco Grosoli
88 Tarrying with Sublimity: The Limits of Cinematic Form deleteDuncan Jones' Source Code Michael J. Blouin
103 Communiqué-tion Breakdown: (Post)Cinematic Interruptions Pleasure and Pain: Post-Cinematic Remakes Holly Willis
119 Watching the World Burn: Intensity, Absurdity and Echoes deleteof the Sublime in Contemporary Science Fiction Destruction John P. Warton
134 The AIllusion: Intelligent Machines, Jacques Derrida's "Ethical deleteTurn" and Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity Larrie Dudenhoeffer
150 The Indigestibility of the World: Birthing the Posthuman deleteSpielberg's A.I. Todd A. Comer
165 Afterword: Afterwards Patrick Fuery
181 Selected Bibliography
187 About the Contributors
199 Index
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