© Columbia University Press
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Paper, 400 pages, 30 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14871-9
$27.50
/ £19.00
July, 2009
Cloth, 400 pages, 30 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14870-2
$87.50
/ £60.50
"[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 is
a remarkable achievement as a first look at the impact of 11 September on filmmaking, and lays the groundwork for any number of new approaches." — Jeffrey Mazo, Survival
"[A] thoughtful and thorough investigation of the celluloid response to that chilling September day." — Luke Davies, The Australian
"A rich record and accounting of the first decade of responses by both mainstream and marginal American filmmakers." — Corey K. Creekmur, Cineaste
"Stephen Prince's penetrating analysis of the cinematic blowback from 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' is a pioneering volume blazing a trail for what will surely be a swathe of like-minded studies. This book is informative, well argued, awash in sparkling insights, and, not incidentally, quite moving." — Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University, and author of Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
"An accessibly written, wide-ranging introduction to a topic that no book in film studies has yet covered so comprehensively." — Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh