Fantasy film post 9/11 /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Illustrations,
23 cm.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Settings, spectacle, and the other: picturing disgust in Jackson's The lord of the rings trilogy
- Bewitching, abject, uncanny: magical spectacle in the Harry Potter films
- Pirate politics and the spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean
- Resurrection, anthropomorphism, and Cold War echoes in Adamson's The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
- The aesthetics of trauma: temporality, and multidirectional memory in Pan's labyrinth
- Reframing the Cold War in the twenty-first century: action, nostalgia and nuclear holocaust in Indiana Jones and The kingdom of the crystal skull
- The ecstasy of chaos: mediating 9/11, terrorism and trauma in The dark knight
- Wounding, morality and torture: reflections of the War on Terror in Iron man and Iron man 2
- Shock and awe: terror, technology, and the sublime nature of Cameron's Avatar
- Conclusion.