The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second

ISBN-13: 9780748693092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

Terence McSweeney

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.