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Postmodern Anarchism In Post-Millennial Hollywood: Cyber Revolutionaries And (In)Corporeal (Hyper)Realities, Jason Swiderski

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An analysis of recent Hollywood blockbuster films reveals the frequent use of anarchism as a trope for negotiating the atmosphere of cultural, political and economic uncertainty that has come to characterise life in the twenty-first century. By applying a technologically-informed strand of anarchism Lewis Call characterizes as postmodern anarchism to these films, socio-cultural tensions and anxieties over the proliferation of digital technologies, fluctuating notions of masculinity and femininity and the threat of terrorism can be allegorically mapped and traced within their narratives. A close analysis of two films that bracket this period, Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) and The Dark Knight …