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Num Pages: 400 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; APF; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output is still taking shape. Did 9/11 force filmmakers and screenwriters to find new methods of storytelling? What kinds of movies have been made in response to 9/11, and are they factual? Is it even possible to practice poetic license with such a devastating, broadly felt tragedy? Stephen Prince is the first scholar to ... Read more
It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output is still taking shape. Did 9/11 force filmmakers and screenwriters to find new methods of storytelling? What kinds of movies have been made in response to 9/11, and are they factual? Is it even possible to practice poetic license with such a devastating, broadly felt tragedy? Stephen Prince is the first scholar to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148702
SKU
V9780231148702
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About Stephen Prince
Stephen Prince is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech, teaching film history, criticism, and theory. He is the author of numerous books, including Classical Film Violence, Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film, The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, and Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies.
Reviews for Firestorm
[Firestorm] will be a popular resource for film students.
James Clarke Times Higher Education Supplement Prince's impressively thorough and intelligently written book will serve as a guide for some years to this visually indelible episode in American history... Essential. Choice offers a detailed and insightful critical analysis while avoiding jargon...Firestorm isa remarkable achievement as a first look at the ... Read more
James Clarke Times Higher Education Supplement Prince's impressively thorough and intelligently written book will serve as a guide for some years to this visually indelible episode in American history... Essential. Choice offers a detailed and insightful critical analysis while avoiding jargon...Firestorm isa remarkable achievement as a first look at the ... Read more