Projecting 9/11
Title | Projecting 9/11 PDF eBook |
Author | Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2014-10-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442218282 |
Projecting 9/11 examines sensibilities and ideologies that arose after September 11, 2001, and how these intersect with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in contemporary mainstream films. The authors argue that the social and political project that is “9/11” can be found in most cultural artifacts produced after the date, including film. In essence, Hollywood films project the 9/11 project. The book analyzes the specific ways in which recent Hollywood films have become both powerful forces of significance and also forceful representations of reality about post-9/11 life. From films that explicitly treat subjects related to 9/11, such as United 93 and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, to films that show post-9/11 themes in less-expected ways, such as Eat, Pray, Love and World War Z, the authors explore tensions around race, gender, and sexuality. The book examines our perceptions of reality after the events of September 11, 2001, as shown by one of the more influential means of cultural representation—Hollywood films.
Pentagon 9/11
Title | Pentagon 9/11 PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Goldberg |
Publisher | Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2007-09-05 |
Genre | Architecture |
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The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks
Title | Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd S. Dixon |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780833036919 |
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, caused tremendous loss of life, property, and income, and the resulting response from public and private organizations was unprecedented. This monograph examines the benefits received by those who were killed or seriously injured on 9/11 and the benefits provided to individuals and businesses in New York City that suffered losses from the attack on the World Trade Center. The authors examine the performance of the compensation system--insurance, tort, government programs, and charity--in responding to the losses stemming from 9/11.
Projecting Politics
Title | Projecting Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Haas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2015-04-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317520033 |
The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of all kinds—including comedy, science fiction, melodrama, and action-adventure—Projecting Politics offers original approaches to determining the political contours of films, and to connecting cinematic language to political messaging. A new chapter covering 2000 to 2013 updates the decade-by-decade look at the Washington-Hollywood nexus, with special areas of focus including the post-9/11 increase in political films, the rise of political war films, and films about the 2008 economic recession. The new edition also considers recent developments such as the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the controversy sparked by the film Zero Dark Thirty, newer generation actor-activists, and the effects of shifting industrial financing structures on political content. A new chapter addresses the resurgence of the disaster-apocalyptic film genre with particular attention paid to its themes of political nostalgia and the turn to global settings and audiences. Updated and expanded chapters on nonfiction film and advocacy documentaries, the politics of race and African-American film, and women and gender in political films round out this expansive, timely new work. A companion website offers two additional appendices and further materials for those using the book in class.
Projecting the Future Through Political Discourse
Title | Projecting the Future Through Political Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia L. Dunmire |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027206325 |
This monograph examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse, focusing on political actors use of hegemonic images of future reality to achieve their political goals. It argues that a key ideological dimension of political rhetoric lies in politicians use of projections of the future to legitimate policies and actions. This argument is grounded in systemic-functional and critical discourse analyses of the Bush Doctrine, the U.S. policy response to the September 11 terrorist attacks which sanctioned a preemptive military posture. By focusing on the discursive construction of the future, this project addresses a lacunae in critical discourse studies and calls attention to the crucial role that the discourse and practice of futurology has played in post-Cold War politics and society. It will be of value to scholars interested in the discourses of politics, the war on terror, U.S. national security, and futurology."
Premonitions of September 11th
Title | Premonitions of September 11th PDF eBook |
Author | John Marquardt |
Publisher | Universal-Publishers |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1581126158 |
Premonitions of September 11th is a look at the event from a metaphysical point of view. Several people had "seen" or had premonitions about the event in one form or another some time before it actually occurred. Presented are nearly two dozen premonitions from common everyday people, sandwiched amongst several different philosophies on the nature of premonitions, and metaphysical events in general. It is time to acknowledge the reality of psychic phenomena!
Projecting Politics
Title | Projecting Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Christensen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317462025 |
This work examines the relationship between American politics and films, from 'Birth of a Nation' to 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. It provides a decade-by-decade survey as well as a framework to analyse the political content of films.