American cinema in the shadow of 9/11

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.

Intro -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- introduction American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 -- Part I Dramatisations of the 'War on Terror' -- Chapter 1 The Mythic Shape of American Sniper (2015) -- Chapter 2 Responding to Realities or Telling the Same Old Story? Mixing Real-world and Mythic Resonances in The Kingdom (2007) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) -- Chapter 3 Acts of Redemption and 'The Falling Man' Photograph in Post-9/11 US Cinema -- Chapter 4 '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) -- Chapter 5 Refracting Fundamentalism in Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) -- Part II Influences of the 'War on Terror -- Chapter 6 'Not now that strength': Embodiment and Globalisation in Post-9/11 James Bond -- Chapter 7 Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the 'War on Terror' in Hollywood Film -- Chapter 8 'Gettin' Dirty': Tarantino's Vengeful Justice, the Marked Viewer and Post-9/11 America -- Chapter 9 Stop the Clocks: Lincoln and Post-9/11 Cinema -- Chapter 10 Foreshadows of the Fall: Questioning 9/11's Impact on American Attitudes -- Part III Allegories of the 'War on Terror' -- Chapter 11 'Daddy, I'm scared. Can we go home?' Fear and Allegory in Frank Darabont's The Mist (2007) -- Chapter 12 The Terrible, Horrible Desire to Know: Post-9/11 Horror Remakes, Reboots, Sequels and Prequels -- Chapter 13 Post-9/11 Power and Responsibility in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Chapter 14 Nowhere Left to Zone in Children of Men (2006) -- Chapter 15 Traumatise, Repeat, Finish: Military Science Fiction (Long) after 9/11 and Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (2014) -- Selected Filmography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.