Reframing 9/11

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Title: Reframing 9/11

Authors: Jeff Birkenstein / Anna Froula / Karen Randell

Useful Quotations

1. "September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after everything changed"

2. "The American film industry was initially reluctant to many films and dramatize the events of September 11th and the subsequent war on terror"

3. "If the attack of 9/11 seemed so much like a movie, then it is perhaps not so surprising that the response to 9/11 also took on a distinctly theatrical flair"

4. "It, was cinema, and popular culture in general, that, more than anything else, helped cast the disturbing events of 9/11"

5. "Easily accessible, easily digestible story, one in which everyone had a role to play, as either hero or villain, good or evil, 'with us' or 'against us'"

6. "Everyday life and language reflected terrorism disclaimers"

7. "Many wondered if making art was relevant, or even possible, after such an event. Everyone was looking for ways to make sense of what happened"

8. "Americans hoped for words of comfort from their icons"

9. "Hollywood film since 2002 has been saturated by narratives surrounding the events of 9/11"

10. "The difficulty for Hollywood film-makers in representing the World Trade Center disaster is that the notion of a consensus of 9/11 seems to render the image beyond the conventional models of representation"