List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Hollywood at Ground Zero: Confessions of a Conflicted
Fan
1. "It was like a movie!": Theorizing the Eerie Symmetries of a War
on Terror
2. On the Frontier between Hate and Empathy: The Post‑9/11 Border
Western
3. Femmes Fatales as Torturers and Lost Detectives in a Fragile
City: Post‑9/11 Noir
4. Soaring Above the Law: The Post‑9/11 Superhero
5. "9/11 Transformed the Whole Planet, Not Just America!": The War
on Terror's Shadow across Global Law and Cinema
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Fareed Ben-Youssef is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Texas Tech University.
"This book examines cinematic responses to 9/11 in genre cinema of the twenty-first century. Negotiating film/media studies with cultural theory and social theory, it explores the ways films not ostensibly about the attacks channel various anxieties and fears surrounding them. The book's major strength is its confident close analysis of individual films within a cogently defined social/cultural context, but it also has the advantage of mounting a sustained argument from an individual point of view, one given added heft by being from an Arab-American's perspective." — James Morrison, Claremont McKenna College
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