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Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking

Autor Professor Larrie Dudenhoeffer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mai 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501370977
ISBN-10: 1501370979
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 25 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Topical and timely subject matter as President Trump continues to call for shutdowns and national emergencies in order to force Congress to underwrite the construction of a massive security wall on the Mexico-U.S. border

Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Green Zones: Besides the Walls on the Cinema's Screens2. Safe Spaces: Inside the Walls on the Cinema's Screens3. Gated Communities: Outside the Walls on the Cinema's Screens4. Interface Area: Beyond the Walls on the Cinema's ScreensConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Larrie Dudenhoeffer's Walls Without Cinema gives an admirably lucid account of how 21st century Hollywood cinema has responded to our current political atmosphere of security panics and xenophobic terrors. At a time when politicians stigmatize immigrants and urge us to build walls, this book offers us cinematic counter-visions of breaking down walls and creating communities across borders.