Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism

Stephen Prince

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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

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Theater of Mass Destruction

2. Shadows Once Removed

3. Ground Zero in Focus

4. Battleground Iraq

5. Terrorism on the Small Screen

6. No End in Sight

Appendix 1: Historical Timeline

Appendix 2: Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Cultural Studies
• Film
• Popular Culture

About the Author

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.

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