American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11

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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