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Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema
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Briggs, Gordon
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Year and Degree
2016, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
Abstract
This dissertation investigates four contemporary films that focus on borders and border security in the wake of 9/11. The films chosen were: Three Burials for Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones 2005) Frozen River (Courtney Hunt 2008), Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron 2005), and Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera 2008). The textual analysis of this dissertation focuses on depictions of border spaces and the people who cross them within a particular cycle of films. This work examines how this collection of films challenges both traditional depictions of border spaces in films and the nativist conceptions of border that permeated the country in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In doing so, this work explores how these cinematic border spaces offer new conceptions of home, identity, and citizenship. This examination focuses on three different components of this cycle of border cinema, frontier, mobility, and the notion of home. In undertaking this analysis this dissertation employs an interdisciplinary triangle of 9/11 Studies, Genre Studies, and Border Studies.
Committee
Erin Schlumpf (Committee Chair)
Pages
210 p.
Subject Headings
Film Studies
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Motion Pictures
Keywords
Borders
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Briggs, G. (2016).
Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471478505
APA Style (7th edition)
Briggs, Gordon.
Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema.
2016. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471478505.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Briggs, Gordon. "Borders in Post 9/11 Cinema." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471478505
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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