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- Title
"It Was Like a Movie," Take 2: Age of Ultron and a 9/11 Aesthetic.
- Authors
RANDELL, KAREN
- Abstract
The article explores the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on motion pictures and the imagery of urban destruction in the film "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Emphasis is given to a scene featuring the superheroes Iron Man and the Hulk in combat and the destruction of a city in South Africa. Other topics include the collapsing of skyscrapers and the assimilation of traumatic experiences.
- Subjects
SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; AVENGERS: Age of Ultron (Film); CITIES &; towns in motion pictures; HULK (Fictional character); IRON Man (Fictional character); SUPERHERO films
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2016, Vol 56, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2016.0060