Walls Without Cinema
State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking
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2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6419-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6419-8 (ISBN)
This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants, refugees, and other sovereign states, challenging our commitment to constructing them, maintaining them, staffing them, and subsidizing their enormous overheads.
With case studies ranging from Atomic Blonde and Ready Player One to Black Panther and Elysium; Walls without Cinema serves as a timely counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive, carceral security conditions that characterize the Trump administration’s management of the Mexico-U.S. border situation.
With case studies ranging from Atomic Blonde and Ready Player One to Black Panther and Elysium; Walls without Cinema serves as a timely counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive, carceral security conditions that characterize the Trump administration’s management of the Mexico-U.S. border situation.
Larrie Dudenhoeffer is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, USA, specializing in film studies, critical theory, and American studies. He is the author of Embodiment and Horror Cinema (2014) and Anatomy of the Superhero Film (2017).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Green Zones: Besides the Walls on the Cinema's Screens
2. Safe Spaces: Inside the Walls on the Cinema's Screens
3. Gated Communities: Outside the Walls on the Cinema's Screens
4. Interface Area: Beyond the Walls on the Cinema's Screens
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.11.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 25 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 508 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-6419-7 / 1501364197 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-6419-8 / 9781501364198 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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