| Description |
vi, 262 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Something Lost - Film after 9/11 / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- 2. Architectural Nostalgia and the New York City Skyline on film / Steven Jay Schneider -- 3. The Shadow of the World Trade Center Is Climbing My Memory of Civilization / Murray Pomerance -- 4. Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to September 11 / David Sterritt -- 5. "America under Attack": Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and History in the Media / Marcia Landy -- 6. City Films, Modern Spatiality, and the End of the World Trade Center / Juan A. Suarez -- 7. "Today Is the Longest Day of My Life": 24 as a Mirror Narrative of 9/11 / Ina Rae Hark -- 8. The How-To Manual, the Prequel, and the Sequel in Post-9/11 Cinema / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- 9. The Fascination of the Abomination: The Censored Images of 9/11 / Mikita Brottman -- 10. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar: Lifting a Veil on Afghanistan / Philip Mosley -- 11. Reel Terror Post 9/11 / Jonathan Markovitz |
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12. Survivors in The West Wing: 9/11 and the United States of Emergency / Isabelle Freda |
| Summary |
In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate. While some contemporary films offer escapism, much of mainstream American cinema since 9/11 is centered on the desire for a ©just war♯ in which military reprisals and escalation of warfare appear to be both inevitable and justified. Films of 2002 such as Black Hawk Down, Collateral Damage, and We Were Soldiers demonstrate a renewed audience appetite for narratives of conflict, reminiscent of the wave of filmmaking that surrounded American involvement in World War II. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon galvanized the American public initially, yet film critics wonder how this will play out in over time. Film and Television After 9/11 is the first book to provide original insights into topics ranging from the international reception of post-9/11 American cinema, re-viewing films of our shared cinematic past in light of the attacks, and exploring parallels between post-9/11 cinema and World War II-era productions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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Television -- United States.
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Television programs -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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| Author |
Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
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| LC no. |
2003010378 |
| ISBN |
0809325551 alkaline paper |
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080932556X paperback alkaline paper |
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