- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11
- Chapter 1 The Mythic Shape of <i>American Sniper</i> (2015)
- Chapter 2 Responding to Realities or Telling the Same Old Story? Mixing Real-world and Mythic Resonances in <i>The Kingdom</i> (2007) and <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i> (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 <i>The War Within</i> (2005) and Hesham Issawi’s <i>AmericanEast</i> (2008)
- Chapter 5 Refracting Fundamentalism in Mira Nair’s <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i> (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: <i>Lincoln</i> 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 <i>The Mist</i> (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 <i>Children of Men</i> (2006)
- Chapter 15 Traumatise, Repeat, Finish: Military Science Fiction (Long) after 9/11 and Doug Liman’s <i>Edge of Tomorrow</i> (2014)
- Selected Filmography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Nowhere Left to Zone in Children of Men (2006)
Nowhere Left to Zone in Children of Men (2006)
- Chapter:
- (p.291) Chapter 14 Nowhere Left to Zone in Children of Men (2006)
- Source:
- American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11
- Author(s):
Sean Redmond
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In Chapter Fourteen Redmond contends that Alfonso Cuarón's richly symbolic dystopian drama Children of Men is a film haunted by the dread of both the traumatic diegetic incident that leads to the film's storyline (women not being able to conceive children for some unexplained reason) and the events of 9/11, which leaves its mark on the film's narrative and imagery in a range of ways.
Keywords: Science fiction, dystopia, Hollywood, War on Terror, 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 <i>American Sniper</i> (2015)
- Chapter 2 Responding to Realities or Telling the Same Old Story? Mixing Real-world and Mythic Resonances in <i>The Kingdom</i> (2007) and <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i> (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 <i>The War Within</i> (2005) and Hesham Issawi’s <i>AmericanEast</i> (2008)
- Chapter 5 Refracting Fundamentalism in Mira Nair’s <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i> (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: <i>Lincoln</i> 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 <i>The Mist</i> (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 <i>Children of Men</i> (2006)
- Chapter 15 Traumatise, Repeat, Finish: Military Science Fiction (Long) after 9/11 and Doug Liman’s <i>Edge of Tomorrow</i> (2014)
- Selected Filmography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
