Firestorm - American Film in the Age of Terrorism

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Prince is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech, teaching film history, criticism, and theory. He is the author of numerous books, including Classical Film Violence , Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film , The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa , and Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies . Klappentext 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, from 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 their companions, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Prince begins with pre-9/11 depictions of terrorism (such as Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage [1936]) and follows with studio and independent films that directly responded to 9/11. He considers documentary portraits and conspiracy films, as well as serial television shows (most notably 24) and made-for-TV movies that re-present the attacks in a broader, more intimate way. In conclusion, Prince finds in these triumphs and failures an exciting new era of American filmmaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Theater of Mass Destruction 2. Shadows Once Removed 3. Ground Zero in Focus 4. Battleground Iraq 5. Terrorism on the Small Screen 6. No End in Sight Appendix 1: Historical Timeline Appendix 2: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Prince
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2009
• EAN: 9780231148719
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14871-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, c 2000 to c 2009, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism