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082 0 4 _a301
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100 1 _aJung, Berenike.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNarrating Violence in Post-9/11 Action Cinema
_h[electronic resource] :
_bTerrorist Narratives, Cinematic Narration, and Referentiality /
_cby Berenike Jung.
264 1 _aWiesbaden :
_bVS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften,
_c2010.
300 _a130p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThis work discusses the way in which action movies have responded to the visual and narrative challenge of depicting terrorist violence after 9/11, when the spectacular representation of terrorist violence – and by extension the consumers of these imagers – was considered as complicit behaviour. If terrorism is theatre, who goes to see the show? A close-reading of exemplary movies (V for Vendetta, Munich, and Children of Men) concentrates on three key aspects: How is terrorist violence justified, especially in comparison to other forms of violence? How is the audience implicitly positioned? And finally, what is the role and scope of the films’ visual short-cuts, iconic “real” images such as those from the Abu Ghraib prison? The results reaffirm popular movies' power of working through traumatic events as well as their capacity to articulate a valid political critique. Instead of inventing or preceding real acts of violence, cinema can document, witness, and encourage the spectator to explore unorthodox viewing positions and moral dilemma. This interdisciplinary work is addressed to students of Philosophy, the Humanities, Cinema, American, or Cultural Studies as well as to the interested public.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aSociology.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aSociology.
650 2 4 _aSociology.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92602-5
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