دانلود کتاب No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Hollywood at Ground Zero: Confessions of a Conflicted Fan
A 9/11 Film Study without Films About 9/11?
Passing through X-Ray Machines and into the Security Theater
“Don’t think!”: Looking at the Collapsing Towers
“Like watching a Hollywood blockbuster”: A Memorial Calls Out to the Movies
“The World Trade Center in the Popular Imagination”: Finding Superman at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
Like a Hollywood Superhero Blockbuster? Finding Spider-Man in World Trade Center
“Welcome to a world without rules”: World Leaders as Movie Stars
The Hedonist’s Eye: Eating a Sandwich and Glimpsing the Nation’s Enemy as a Mirage
1 “It was like a movie!”: Theorizing the Eerie Symmetries of a War on Terror
The Joker’s Lesson: A Time of Law and Genre Cinema without Jurisdiction
The Undercover Cop’s Lesson: The Power in Playing the Victim
Logan’s Lessons: Learning Cruelty, Compassion, and History from (Super)Heroes
Responding to a Challenge to Complicate Histories of 9/11
2 On the Frontier between Hate and Empathy: The Post-9/11 Border Western
“I am not a cowboy”: Finding My Selves in the Western
When Texas Stands in for Iraq: Introducing the Border Western and Its Ever-Shifting Boundaries
Drones over the Frontier: Sicario and the Panopticon Border
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Realizing the Impossible Subject’s Humanity
The Noir Border in The Counselor: Where Economics Trumps Humanity
Conclusion: Finding (and Exploiting) the Divine Violence in Genre
3 Femmes Fatales as Torturers and Lost Detectives in a Fragile City: Post-9/11 Noir
“I hate this place!”: Seeing a Noir City as a Dark Mirror
“Somebody’s lying!”: Introducing Post-9/11 Noir and Our Paranoid Politics
Sin City and the Militant Femme Fatale
Jessica Lynch Comes to Sin City: The Damsel in Distress as Female Rambo
Lynndie England Comes to Sin City: The Femme Fatale as Revolutionary Perpetrator and Useful Fall Girl
Zodiac and the Allegorical Representation of Bureaucratic Failure in the War on Terror
Conclusion
4 Soaring Above the Law: The Post-9/11 Superhero
The Damsel’s Troubled Gaze: Loving the Superhero in Times of Mass Violence
Introducing the Conflicted Post-9/11 Superhero and Christopher Nolan’s Batman
“The Power of Fear” and Psychological Torture in Batman Begins
“It’s not about money, it’s about sending a message!”: The Transformation of a Clown into a Terrorist
“Beautiful, isn’t it?”: The Allure and Trap of State Surveillance in The Dark Knight
Seeing Spectacular State Violence Anew: The Shadow of Hurricane Katrina in The Dark Knight Rises
Conclusion
5 “9/11 Transformed the Whole Planet, Not Just America!”: The War on Terror’s Shadow across Global Law and Cinema
Blood on the Red Carpet
The Necessity for a Global Vision on Post-9/11 Hollywood Genre Film
Alba Sotorra’s Game Over: Tracking the Shadow of the War on Terror
Nassim Amaouche’s Adieu Gary: Adopting a Destructive Gaze on the Self
Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown: Inspiration and Disillusionment with Contested Genre Forms
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: Seeing America’s Wars as a Noir Nightmare
Genre as the “Claire de Lune” in Post-9/11 Public Discourse
Notes
Works Cited
Index