Acknowledgements t has been a great pleasure to write about a form of mainstream cinema
for which I have an ongoing fondness, and to subject it to the sustained attention that I feel it …

Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why
these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11 …

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from
playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary …

What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of
material things, subjects and causal agents that we call" environment"? Ecocritical …

Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is
the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent …

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the
depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainstream US cinema has not yet been …

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 …

This paper uses P. Ricoeur's studies on the Poetics, and his notion of" refiguration" as
developed in the work of Juan José García-Noblejas, under the scope of the Aristotelian …

The events of September 11 did not herald a new age of terrorism, for terrorism had been
primarily fuelled by religion since the 1980s; however, the 9/11 attacks did herald changes …

The first decade of the twenty-first century has been marked by the decisive entry into our
media landscape of the so-called global war on terror, with countless films and TV series …