Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Figures v
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Foreword ix
6. Introduction: American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 1
7. Part I. Dramatisations of the ‘War on Terror
8. 1. The Mythic Shape of American Sniper (2015) 23
9. 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) 49
10. 3. Acts of Redemption and ‘The Falling Man’ Photograph in Post-9/11 US Cinema 67
11. 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) 89
12. 5. Refracting Fundamentalism in Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) 109
13. Part II. Influences of the ‘War on Terror’
14. 6. ‘Not now that strength’: Embodiment and Globalisation in Post-9/11 James Bond 127
15. 7. Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’ in Hollywood Film 147
16. 8. ‘Gettin’ Dirty’: Tarantino’s Vengeful Justice, the Marked Viewer and Post-9/11 Am 169
17. 9. Stop the Clocks: Lincoln and Post-9/11 Cinema 191
18. 10. Foreshadows of the Fall: Questioning 9/11’s Impact on American Attitudes 207
19. Part III. Allegories of the ‘War on Terror’
20. 11. ‘Daddy, I’m scared. Can we go home?’ Fear and Allegory in Frank Darabont’s The Mist (2007 227
21. 12. The Terrible, Horrible Desire to Know: Post-9/11 Horror Remakes, Reboots, Sequels and Prequels 249
22. 13. Post-9/11 Power and Responsibility in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 269
23. 14. Nowhere Left to Zone in Children of Men (2006) 291
24. 15. Traumatise, Repeat, Finish: Military Science Fiction (Long) after 9/11 and Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 307
25. Selected Filmography 327
26. Notes on the Contributors 335
27. Index 339