"Hollywood Counterterrorism: Violence, Protest and the Middle East in U.S. Action Feature Films" demonstrates how Western discourses of counterterrorism and the Middle East have shaped Hollywood cinematic productions through sourcing and collaboration with private and official institutions. I historicize how terrorism emerged to become a privileged concept in the representation of Hollywood cinema and how hegemonic counterterrorism discourses of the Middle East are encoded in film aesthetics and narrative in the process of U.S. motion picture production. The account of the dissertation delineates how the Hollywood simulacrum of Middle East terrorism is a site for cultural, racial and religious conflict pertaining to mediated representations of political and religious violence. The economic policies and wars of such a social order have become naturalized and all-pervasive in the Hollywood action film genre. / A Dissertation submitted to the College of Communication and Information in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. / Fall Semester, 2009. / October 30, 2009. / Arabs Hollywood, Film Production, Muslims, Middle East, Counterterrorism, Terrorism / Includes bibliographical references. / Andrew Opel, Professor Directing Dissertation; Cecil Greek, University Representative; Donna Nudd, Committee Member; Stephen McDowell, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_180818 |
| Contributors | McKahan, Jason Grant, 1972- (authoraut), Opel, Andrew (professor directing dissertation), Greek, Cecil (university representative), Nudd, Donna (committee member), McDowell, Stephen (committee member), School of Communication (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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