{"product_id":"no-jurisdiction","title":"No Jurisdiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply personal study of post-9\/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Jurisdiction\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War on Terror, Fareed Ben-Youssef shows how, in response to 9\/11, filmmakers and lawmakers mobilized iconic characters-the cowboy, the femme fatale, and the superhero-to make sense of our traumas and inspire new legal landscapes. The competing visions of power produced in this dialogue between Hollywood entertainment and mainstream politics underscore genre cinema's multivalent purpose: to normalize state violence and also to critique it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters devoted to the Western, film noir, superhero movies, and global films that deploy and comment on these genres offer compelling readings of films ranging from the more apparent (\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSicario, and Logan\u003c\/i\u003e) to the more unexpected (\u003ci\u003eSin City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdieu Gary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Circle Breakdown\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTokyo Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e). Through narratives of states of emergency that include vaguely defined enemies, obscured battlefield boundaries, and blurred lines between victims and perpetrators, a new post-9\/11 film canon emerges. \u003ci\u003eNo Jurisdiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal work of film scholarship, arguing that we can face our complicity and discover opportunities for resistance through our beloved genre movies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410487136600,"sku":"9781438489261","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438489261.jpg?v=1777896072","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/no-jurisdiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}