“Mirroring terror”: The impact of 9/11 on Hollywood Cinema
By drawing upon Siegfried Kracauer’s concept of cinema as a “mirror” of society, this article explores the impact of the “terror years” since 2001 on US cinema. Hollywood was the main cultural apparatus for coping with 9/11, which had left Americans struggling in the “desert of the real” (Žižek). Vi...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Alberta
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies |
| Online Access: | http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=5940 |