Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’ in Hollywood Film
Title | Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’ in Hollywood Film |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Knee, Adam |
Editor | McSweeney, Terence |
Book Title | American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 |
Pagination | 147-168 |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
City | Edinburgh |
Abstract | This chapter offers a detailed analysis of the representation of masculinity and agency in two Hollywood films, Unstoppable (2010) and Source Code (2011), which exhibit striking similarities at a range of levels, from their narratives to deeper structures of gendered character function, theme, and geo-political perspective that, the author contends, are a manifestation of distinctly post-9/11 American concerns. The author analyzes both the variations inherent in the genre in the wake of 9/11 and the consistencies of the parameters of American mainstream film, and, more specifically, a developing conceptualization of modes of disciplined masculinity necessitated by the nation’s 'War on Terror' narrative. He then concludes with a comparative analysis of a pre-9/11 film and its post-9/11 remake in which these parameters are brought to the fore: the original Paul Verhoeven RoboCop (1987) and RoboCop (2014) directed by José Padilha. |
URL | https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-american-cinema-in-the-shadow-of-9-11.html |
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