المؤلفون: David Martin Jones, Michael Smith

المصدر: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 39:1-21

مصطلحات موضوعية: 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Hollywood, Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Jihadism, Media studies, Homeland security, Homeland, 02 engineering and technology, Morality, 0506 political science, Spanish Civil War, Law, Political Science and International Relations, 050602 political science & public administration, Mainstream, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Psychology, Safety Research, Gray (horse), media_common

الوصف: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks the American film industry took a while to react to the Islamist threat at home and abroad. From 2005, however, Hollywood responded to the threat to the homeland and the War on Terror “over there” in Iraq and Afghanistan in a variety of ways. This article examines the nature of that response and whether it evinces, as critics allege, that the American film industry reflects and shapes a capitalist and imperialist agenda. More particularly, by evaluating the cinematic treatment of both the Iraq war and the problem of surveillance, rendition, and homeland security, the analysis explores what this distinctive on-screen genre tells about how the U.S. cultural mainstream has dealt with the challenge global jihadism poses to American values. The analysis suggests that post-9/11 movie making, while sometimes bleak and often cliched, is cognizant of the gray area morality inherent in fighting the “War on Terror,” and is still thus able to offer some possibilities for sophisticated ...

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https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2015.1084802