دانلود کتاب غربالگری بحران – سینمای ایالات متحده و تغییرات اجتماعی در پی سقوط 2008

The start of a new century does not mark a fundamental change of course in history or the beginning of a new mindset. Rather, as Stuart Hall observed, “what drives history forward is usually a crisis, when the contradictions that are always at play in any historical moment are condensed” (Hall and Massey 2010, 57). The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center was one of those historical moments. It carried a massive impact on our worldview and, as a society, set the United States on a different course. Sadness and anger ignited a sense of community and the George W. Bush Cabinet used the near total consensus as an occasion to shift power further away from the people to the Executive and the Pentagon and to initiate a global “war on terror” in connivance with the corporate class. In Hollywood, somber war films, dark thrillers, border dramas, and so-called torture porn registered government corruption and the distrust in the imperialist presidency of George W. Bush. As Douglas Kellner illustrated (2010), films like Syriana (2015), Michael Clayton (2007), the Bourne Conspiracy trilogy, and the Saw and Hostel series articulated these concerns.