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War on Terror and American Film

McSweeney Terence McSweeney
War on Terror and American Film Book PDF

Author : McSweeney Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748693115

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War on Terror and American Film by McSweeney Terence McSweeney Pdf

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.

Firestorm

Stephen Prince
Firestorm Book PDF

Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231148702

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It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output is still taking shape. Did 9/11 force filmmakers and screenwriters to find new methods of storytelling? What kinds of movies have been made in response to 9/11, and are they factual? Is it even possible to practice poetic license with such a devastating, broadly felt tragedy? Stephen Prince is the first scholar to trace the effect of 9/11 on the making of American film. From documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) to zombie flicks, and from fictional narratives such as The Kingdom (2007) to Mike Nichols's Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Prince evaluates the extent to which filmmakers have exploited, explained, understood, or interpreted the attacks and the Iraq War that followed, including incidents at Abu Ghraib. He begins with pre-9/11 depictions of terrorism, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), and follows with studio and independent films that directly respond to 9/11. He considers documentary portraits and conspiracy films, as well as serial television shows (most notably Fox's 24) and made-for-TV movies that re-present the attacks in a broader, more intimate way. Ultimately Prince finds that in these triumphs and failures an exciting new era of American filmmaking has taken shape.

The War on Terror and American Popular Culture

Andrew Schopp,Matthew B. Hill
The War on Terror and American Popular Culture Book PDF

Author : Andrew Schopp,Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838642078

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The War on Terror and American Popular Culture is a collection of original essays by academics and researchers from around the world that examines the complex interrelation between the Bush administration's "War on Terror" and American popular culture. Written by experts in the fields of literature, film, and cultural studies, this book examines in detail how popular culture reflects concerns and anxieties about the September 11 attacks and the war those attacks generated, how it interrogates the individual and collective impacts that war has wrought, how it might challenge or critique current policy, and how it might reinforce or endorse the war and its sociopolitical paradigms.

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11

Terence McSweeney
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9 11 Book PDF

Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474413831

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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.

The 'War on Terror' and American Film

Terence McSweeney
The War on Terror and American Film Book PDF

Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1474408540

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American film in the first decade of the new millennium became a cultural battleground on which a war of representation was waged, but did these films endorse the 'War on Terror' or criticise it? More than just reproducing these fears and fantasies, The 'War on Terror and American Film' argues that American cinema has played a significant role in shaping them, restructuring how audiences have viewed the 'War on Terror' in particularly influential ways.

Reframing 9/11

Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Reframing 9 11 Book PDF

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441119056

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A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11

Terence McSweeney
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9 11 Book PDF

Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474413824

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American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 by Terence McSweeney Pdf

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.

Reframing 9/11

Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Reframing 9 11 Book PDF

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441141958

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Reframing 9/11 by Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell Pdf

September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America's recent history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11 share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official political rhetoric of the events of the "The Global War on Terror" and issues of national security.

Screens of Terror

Phil Hammond
Screens of Terror Book PDF

Author : Phil Hammond
Publisher : Abramis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSD:31822038896296

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The essays in this collection first came together at a conference, held at London South Bank University's Centre for Media and Culture Research in September 2010, on representations of the 'war on terror' in film and television.

War and Film in America

Marilyn J. Matelski,Nancy Lynch Street
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Author : Marilyn J. Matelski,Nancy Lynch Street
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451463

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America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across five decades. The essays, written especially for this volume, explore topics such as frontier justice, Cold War fervor, government-sponsored terrorism, the "back-to-Nam" films, films as a venue for propaganda, and war's far-reaching effects on personal values, family relationships, and general civility. The movies used in these analyses vary from conventional battle epics like Bridge on the River Kwai and The Green Berets to motion pictures with a war motif either as part of the story (The Way We Were) or as a historical setting (The Graduate). Some of the films are satirical (Dr. Strangelove); some are propagandistic (The Alamo, Big Jim McLain). Other films include Black Hawk Down, True Lies, The Deer Hunter, Patriot Games and Let There Be Light. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Terrorism in American Cinema

Robert Cettl
Terrorism in American Cinema Book PDF

Author : Robert Cettl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786454426

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The American cinema of terrorism, although coming to prominence primarily in the 1970s amidst high-profile Palestinian terrorist activity, actually dates back to the beginnings of the Cold War. But this early terrorist cinema was centered largely around the Bomb--who had it, who would use it, when--and differs greatly from the terrorist cinema that would follow. Changing world events soon broadened the cinema of terrorism to address emerging international conflicts, including Black September, pre-9/11 Middle Eastern conflicts, and the post-9/11 "War on Terror." This analytical filmography of American terrorist films establishes terrorist cinema as a unique subgenre with distinct thematic narrative and stylistic trends. It covers all major American films dealing with terrorism, from Otto Preminger's Exodus (1960) to Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008).

Against All Enemies

Richard A. Clarke
Against All Enemies Book PDF

Author : Richard A. Clarke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847375889

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Richard Clarke has been one of America's foremost experts on counterterrorism measures for more than two decades. He has served under four presidents from both parties, beginning in Ronald Reagan's State Department becoming America's first Counter-terrorism Czar under Bill Clinton and remaining for the first two years of George W. Bush's administration. He has seen every piece of intelligence on Al-Qaeda from the beginning; he was in the Situation Room on September 11th and he knows exactly what has taken place under the United State's new Department of Homeland Security. Through gripping, thriller-like scenes, he tells the full story for the first time and explains what the Bush Administration are doing.

Imagining America at War

Cynthia Weber
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Author : Cynthia Weber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415375363

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Cynthia Weber presents a stimulating new study of how Americans construct their identity and the moral values that inform their foreign policy. She details how films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and fundamental debates about what it means to be an American.

Trapped in the War on Terror

Ian Lustick
Trapped in the War on Terror Book PDF

Author : Ian Lustick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0812239830

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Trapped in the War on Terror by Ian Lustick Pdf

"Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

Disappearing War

Christina Hellmich
Disappearing War Book PDF

Author : Christina Hellmich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474416573

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Disappearing War by Christina Hellmich Pdf

The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war? What are the intentional and unintentional processes of erasure through which the distortion happens? What are their consequences? Cinema is a key site at which questions about our highly mediated experience of war can be addressed or, more significantly, elided. Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper, to documentaries like Kill List and Dirty Wars, as well as at the work of visual artists like Harun Farocki and Omer Fast, this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions. Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage, this provocative collection addresses 'what's missing' in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare; in film studies, as well as in politics and international relations.