- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
-
Introduction American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 -
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) -
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 -
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
‘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)
‘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)
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- (p.89) 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)
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- American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11
- Author(s):
Paul Petrovic
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
Petrovic asserts that The War Within (directed by Joseph Castrello based on a screenplay by Tom Glynn and the Pakistani American actor-writer Ayad Akhtar who also plays the lead role in the film and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his play Disgraced [2013]) and Hesham Issawi’s AmericanEast are two of very few American films to centralise the experience of American Muslim lives in their narratives and portray their characters with a sense of humanity and cultural sensitivity instead of crudely drawn caricatures.
Keywords: Hollywood, Muslim, Representation, 9/11
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
-
Introduction American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 -
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) -
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 -
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