%0 Journal Article
%T An Event ¡°Like a Movie¡±? Hollywood and 9/11
%A Rickli
%A Christina
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2009
%I University of Regensburg
%X Footage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 provoked a wide spectrum of viewers to state that what they were witnessing was ¡°like a movie.¡± In a first part, this essay discusses the salience of such a simile by comparing the aesthetics and content of 9/11-footage to the one of Hollywood disaster films. In a second part, Hollywood¡¯s immediate reactions as well as its recent movie representations of 9/11 are analyzed.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/114/138