Fixing Ground Zero: Race and Religion in Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend
Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend is a complex intertext of Matheson’s novel of the same name and its two previous film adaptations. While the film attempts to depict racism as monstrous, the frequent invocation of 9/11 imagery and Christian symbolism throughout the film recodes the vampiric dark-seeke...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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The journal of religion and film
Jahr: 2017, Band: 21, Heft: 2, Seiten: 1-27 |
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Francis Lawrence
I Am Legend
The Omega Man
Christianity
Islam
Islamophobia
Crusades
Bush
9/11
Vampires
Monsters
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| Zusammenfassung: | Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend is a complex intertext of Matheson’s novel of the same name and its two previous film adaptations. While the film attempts to depict racism as monstrous, the frequent invocation of 9/11 imagery and Christian symbolism throughout the film recodes the vampiric dark-seekers as radical Islamic terrorists. This serves to further enshrine an us/Christians vs. them/Muslim dichotomy present in post-9/11 America, a dichotomy that the film presents as “curable” through the spread of Christianity and the fall of Islam. |
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| ISSN: | 1092-1311 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion and film
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