Terror and the Cinematic Sublime
Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post-9/11 Films
Published on 11. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-7864-7207-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection considers film in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media, including theatrical films by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee, and post-cinematic works by Wafaa Bilal, Douglas Gordon and Peter Tscherkassky, among others. All of the essays are written with an eye to what may be the central concept of our time, the sublime. The sublime--that which can be thought but not represented (the "unpresentable")--provides a ready tool for analyses of trauma, horror, catastrophe and apocalypse, the military-industrial complex, the end of humanism and the limits of freedom. Such essays take the pulse of our cultural moment, while also providing the reader with a sense of the nature of the sublime in critical work, and how it continues to evolve conceptually in the 21st century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-7207-9 (9780786472079)
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Persons
Todd A. Comer is an associate professor of English at Defiance College in Ohio and has published in such journals as SubStance, the Journal of Narrative Theory, and the Journal of Modern Literature. Lloyd Isaac Vayo is an adjunct instructor at Concordia University-St. Paul and has published in the Journal of Sonic Studies, Rhizomes and Popular Music and Society.
Content
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ?1
Introduction: Terror and the (Post)Cinematic Sublime Todd A. Comer and Lloyd Isaac Vayo ?5
Hits and Missives: Excluding/Embracing 9/11
Plummeting to the Pavement: The Fall of the Body
deleteSpider-Man Kartik Nair ?15
When Does the Hurting Stop? Clover?eld and the
delete(Re)Enabling of Fantasy in the Post-9/11 City Scott Wilson ?29
Keeping Terror Alive: The Political Economy of Visibility
deletein Inside Man Sven Cvek ?42
Pushing the Enveloped: Exposing the Limits of Freedom
Aronofsky's Cinematic Vision and the Ethical Meaning
deleteFreedom as the Sublime Horizon of Amor Fati Donald Callen ?57
The Apocalyptic Sublime: Hollywood Disaster Films and
deleteDonnie Darko Seung-hoon Jeong ?72
History Is Always Virgin: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious
deleteBasterds and the Lyotardian Sublime Marco Grosoli ?88
Tarrying with Sublimity: The Limits of Cinematic Form
deleteDuncan Jones' Source Code Michael J. Blouin ?103
Communique-tion Breakdown: (Post)Cinematic Interruptions
Pleasure and Pain: Post-Cinematic Remakes Holly Willis ?119
Watching the World Burn: Intensity, Absurdity and Echoes
deleteof the Sublime in Contemporary Science Fiction Destruction John P. Warton ?134
The AIllusion: Intelligent Machines, Jacques Derrida's "Ethical
deleteTurn" and Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity Larrie Dudenhoeffer ?150
The Indigestibility of the World: Birthing the Posthuman
deleteSpielberg's A.I. Todd A. Comer ?165
Afterword: Afterwards Patrick Fuery ?181
Selected Bibliography ?187
About the Contributors ?199
Index ?201
Preface and Acknowledgments ?1
Introduction: Terror and the (Post)Cinematic Sublime Todd A. Comer and Lloyd Isaac Vayo ?5
Hits and Missives: Excluding/Embracing 9/11
Plummeting to the Pavement: The Fall of the Body
deleteSpider-Man Kartik Nair ?15
When Does the Hurting Stop? Clover?eld and the
delete(Re)Enabling of Fantasy in the Post-9/11 City Scott Wilson ?29
Keeping Terror Alive: The Political Economy of Visibility
deletein Inside Man Sven Cvek ?42
Pushing the Enveloped: Exposing the Limits of Freedom
Aronofsky's Cinematic Vision and the Ethical Meaning
deleteFreedom as the Sublime Horizon of Amor Fati Donald Callen ?57
The Apocalyptic Sublime: Hollywood Disaster Films and
deleteDonnie Darko Seung-hoon Jeong ?72
History Is Always Virgin: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious
deleteBasterds and the Lyotardian Sublime Marco Grosoli ?88
Tarrying with Sublimity: The Limits of Cinematic Form
deleteDuncan Jones' Source Code Michael J. Blouin ?103
Communique-tion Breakdown: (Post)Cinematic Interruptions
Pleasure and Pain: Post-Cinematic Remakes Holly Willis ?119
Watching the World Burn: Intensity, Absurdity and Echoes
deleteof the Sublime in Contemporary Science Fiction Destruction John P. Warton ?134
The AIllusion: Intelligent Machines, Jacques Derrida's "Ethical
deleteTurn" and Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity Larrie Dudenhoeffer ?150
The Indigestibility of the World: Birthing the Posthuman
deleteSpielberg's A.I. Todd A. Comer ?165
Afterword: Afterwards Patrick Fuery ?181
Selected Bibliography ?187
About the Contributors ?199
Index ?201