Atomic Housewives: Shutter Island and the Domestication of Nuclear Holocaust
ABSTRACT: Martin Scorsese's 2010 film Shutter Island is one of several post–September 11 cultural texts that use Cold War settings to challenge the trend in US culture to displace social and political fears by escaping to a nostalgia for an idealized postwar society. The film ostensibly replaces the protagonist's wartime trauma with a domestic tragedy while simultaneously undermining that replacement. Its attempt to bury the guilt for war crimes under worries about the collapse of the nuclear family confronts the United States' attempt to justify its actions in the War on Terror through a nostalgic imaginary of the Cold War.
9/11 Culture: America Under Construction
Acknowledgments. Introduction: 9/11 Questions (and Answers). 1. Rumors. 2. Telethon. 3. Snapshots. 4. Rising. 5. Us. 6. Tools. 7. Shout-Outs. Bibliography. Appendix 1: 9/11 in Film and on Television. Appendix 2: 9/11 Music. A Note to Teachers. Index.
An Actor Prepares
Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.