Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking by Dudenhoeffer, Larrie

Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501370977)

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Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking by Dudenhoeffer, Larrie

Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking

$40.95
Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking by Dudenhoeffer, Larrie

Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush's Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants, refugees, and other sovereign states, challenging our commitment to constructing them, maintaining them, staffing them, and subsidizing their enormous overheads.

With case studies ranging from Atomic Blondeand Ready Player One to Black Panther and Elysium; Walls without Cinemaserves as a timely counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive, carceral security conditions that characterize the Trump administration's management of the Mexico-U.S. border situation.

Author: Larrie Dudenhoeffer
ISBN-10: 1501370979
ISBN-13: 9781501370977
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
By Larrie Dudenhoeffer
By Larrie Dudenhoeffer
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Larrie Dudenhoeffer is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, USA, specializing in film studies, critical theory, and American studies. He is the author of Embodiment and Horror Cinema (2014) and Anatomy of the Superhero Film (2017).

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