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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

Ben-Youssef, Fareed

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

21st Century United States HistoryFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1438489269
ISBN13: 9781438489261
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jan 2 2023
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War on Terror, Fareed Ben-Youssef shows how, in response to 9/11, filmmakers and lawmakers mobilized iconic characters-the cowboy, the femme fatale, and the superhero-to make sense of our traumas and inspire new legal landscapes. The competing visions of power produced in this dialogue between Hollywood entertainment and mainstream politics underscore genre cinema's multivalent purpose: to normalize state violence and also to critique it.

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