Training the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’ in Hollywood Film

TitleTraining the Body Politic: Networked Masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’ in Hollywood Film
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsKnee, Adam
EditorMcSweeney, Terence
Book TitleAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11
Pagination147-168
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
CityEdinburgh
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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.

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