Fantasy Film Post 9/11

1. Introduction
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

2. Settings, Spectacle, and the Other: Picturing Disgust in Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

3. Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Magical Spectacle in the Harry Potter Films
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

4. Pirate Politics and the Spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

5. Resurrection, Anthropomorphism, and Cold War Echoes in Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

6. The Aesthetics of Trauma: Temporality and Multidirectional Memory in Pan’s Labyrinth
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

7. Reframing the Cold War in the Twenty-First Century: Action, Nostalgia, and Nuclear Holocaust in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

8. The Ecstasy of Chaos: Mediations of 9/11, Terrorism, and Traumatic Memory in The Dark Knight
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

9. Wounding, Morality, and Torture: Reflections of the War on Terror in Iron Man and Iron Man 2
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

10. Shock and Awe: Terror, Technology, and the Sublime Nature of Cameron’s Avatar
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

11. Conclusion
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

Keywords: History, Cultural History, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Genre, Arts, Regional and Cultural Studies