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Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema

Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema

Westwell, Guy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0231172028
ISBN13: 9780231172028
Publisher: Wallflower Pr
Published: Oct 21 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book combines readings of individual films (World Trade Center, United 93, Fahrenheit 9/11, Loose Change) and cycles of films (depicting revenge, conspiracy, torture and war) with extended commentary on recurring themes, including the relationship between the US and the rest of the world, narratives of therapeutic recovery, questions of ethical obligation.

The volume argues that post-9/11 cinema is varied and dynamic, registering shock and upheaval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, displaying capacity for critique following the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal mid-decade, and seeking to reestablish consensus during Obama's troubled second term of office.

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