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Author Pheasant-Kelly, Frances, 1960-

Title Fantasy film post 9/11 / Frances Pheasant-Kelly.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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 Moore Stacks  PN1995.9.F36 P53 2013    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents Introduction -- Settings, spectacle, and the other: picturing disgust in Jackson's The lord of the rings trilogy -- Bewitching, abject, uncanny: magical spectacle in the Harry Potter films -- Pirate politics and the spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean -- Resurrection, anthropomorphism, and Cold War echoes in Adamson's The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- The aesthetics of trauma: temporality, and multidirectional memory in Pan's labyrinth -- Reframing the Cold War in the twenty-first century: action, nostalgia and nuclear holocaust in Indiana Jones and The kingdom of the crystal skull -- The ecstasy of chaos: mediating 9/11, terrorism and trauma in The dark knight -- Wounding, morality and torture: reflections of the War on Terror in Iron man and Iron man 2 -- Shock and awe: terror, technology, and the sublime nature of Cameron's Avatar -- Conclusion.
Subject Fantasy films -- History and criticism.
Fantasy films.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
ISBN 9780230392120 (alkaline paper)
0230392121 (alkaline paper)