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Introducing a new
book from Edinburgh University Press…
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The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second
By Terence McSweeney
Part of the
Traditions in American Cinema series, edited by Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer
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Description
This compelling and theoretically informed exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film through a range of genres – war films, superhero
movies, historical dramas, horror and even alien invasion films – each revealing a cinema not of escapism but one that engages profoundly with the turbulent era in which their films were made. Through a vibrant analysis of films as diverse as
War of the Worlds (2005), United 93 (2006), 300 (2007), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007),
Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Marvel Avengers Assemble (2012) and many others,
The ‘War on Terror’ and American Film explores the influence of the cultural trauma of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ on American cinema in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond.
Table of Contents
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
HARDBACK: November 2014 / 256 pages / ISBN 978-0-7486-9309-2 / $120.00 / £70.00
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK: 978-0-7486-9310-8
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in the USA and Canada
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Terence McSweeney, is a writer and academic living in London, England. He is the co-editor of Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film
(Wallflower Press, 2012). Terence received his PhD in 2009 for his work on the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky and has subsequently written on a variety of topics connected to film and history. He is currently researching the significance of the zombie
as an icon of cultural trauma in contemporary global film and television.
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