American cinema in the shadow of 9/11 / edited by Terence McSweeney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McSweeney, Terence, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 to both reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling and resonant ways.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781474413817

1474413811

9781474431958

147443195X

OCLC:

966561207