The City in Ruins
The City in Ruins

Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film

Author(s): Vera Benczik
Subject(s): Political Theory, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: utopia;film;post 9/11New York;trauma of September 11th;
Summary/Abstract: The present essay focuses on post-9/11 films which present the cataclysm and the post-apocalypse implaced in New York. The central motif analyzed will be the effects of the conjunction of the iconographies of fictional catastrophe and historical trauma, how the September 11 attacks and their aftermath influenced and re-shaped the topicalization and visualization of widespread urban destruction, especially that of Manhattan, and how a narrative of historical trauma intersects and interweaves with narratives of spatial carnage regarded as entertainment.

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