Firestorm - Stephen Prince

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Résumé :
Stephen Prince is the first scholar to trace the effect of 9/11 on the making of American film. From documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) to zombie flicks, from The Kingdom (2007) to Mike Nichols's Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Prince evaluates the extent to which filmmakers have exploited, explained, understood, or interpreted the attacks and their companions, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Prince begins with pre-9/11 depictions of terrorism (such as Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage [1936]) and follows with studio and independent films that directly responded to 9/11. He considers documentary portraits and conspiracy films, as well as serial television shows (most notably 24) and made-for-TV movies that re-present the attacks in a broader, more intimate way. In conclusion, Prince finds in these triumphs and failures an exciting new era of American filmmaking.

Biographie:
Stephen Prince is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech, teaching film history, criticism, and theory. He is the author of numerous books, including Classical Film Violence, Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film, The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, and Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Theater of Mass Destruction
2. Shadows Once Removed
3. Ground Zero in Focus
4. Battleground Iraq
5. Terrorism on the Small Screen
6. No End in Sight
Appendix 1: Historical Timeline
Appendix 2: Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index