TY - BOOK AU - Corrigan,Timothy TI - American cinema of the 2000s: themes and variations T2 - Screen decades SN - 9780813553238 AV - PN1993.5.U6 A44 2012eb U1 - 791.43097309/05 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Motion pictures KW - United States KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Plots, themes, etc KW - Cinéma KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 21e siècle KW - Intrigues, thèmes, etc KW - ART KW - Film & Video KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; C O N T E N T S; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; T I M E L I N E; I N T R O D U C T I O N; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2 0 0 0 -- 2 0 0 9; WO R K S C I T E DAND CONSULTED; C O N T R I B U TO R S; I N D E X N2 - The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African-American president of the United States. In between, the U.S. and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, uprisings around the world, and a massive meltdown of world economies. In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of for UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=442893 ER -