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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

By Fareed Ben-Youssef
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By Fareed Ben-Youssef
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A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War on Terror, Fareed Ben-Youssef shows ho...

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