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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.
Contents
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? Cloverfield 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
Communiqué-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
