Terence Mcsweeney

'War on Terror' and American Film (eBook, PDF)

9/11 Frames Per Second

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This compelling, theoretically informed and up-to-date exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film from Black Hawk Down (2001), through Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) to Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Through a vibrant analysis of a range of genres and films - which in turn reveal a strikingly diverse array of social, historical and political perspectives - this book explores the impact of 9/11 and the war on terror on American cinema in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748693108
• Artikelnr.: 72431024

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Lives of Others: Vulnerability in Post 9/11 American Cinema
2. Boots on the Ground: the New Millennial Combat Film as Cultural Artefact
3. "Masters of our own Security": Redemption Through Violence in the Post 9/11 Action Genre
4. Turning to the Dark Side: Questioning American Mythology in the Superhero Genre
5. Remaking 9/11: Imagining the Unimaginable in the Alien Invasion Film
6. Decade of the Dead: Zombie Films as Allegory of National Trauma
7. The Rise and Fall of Empires: The 'War on Terror' as Allegorical Moment in Historical Film
Conclusion
Works cited
Index.