Hollywood and the Entrenched Archetype. Dramatic Clue and 9/11 Political Speech
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https://doi.org/10.4185/926-937Keywords:
Film, terrorism, 11-S, Entrenched character, American FearAbstract
Researchers of American society such as Stearns point out the panic of invasion and the foreign threat as one of the specific indications of the endemic American fear. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this fear has become even more intense before the eyes of the population. This atmosphere of threat has manifested itself in the form of xenophobia and entrenchment in certain sectors of the North American society. Between 2001 and 2008, Hollywood has reflected this social fear as a danger of disintegration in a multi-ethnic society, the result of a melting pot after centuries of history. This work tries to analyse the peculiar character of the entrenched in American fiction cinema after 9/11. The entrenched is a traditional figure in Hollywood landscapes since the times of the early western to the most recent trends in science-fiction, and now has been revitalized as an exponent of the ordinary citizen under risk of mass destruction or lethal invasion.
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