Into Darkness Iron Man!: Drone Strikes and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era
[Editor's note: For those of you who have seen neither Iron Man 3 or Star Trek: Into Darkness, there are spoilers below.] Few action films of recent years have built their origin story so thoroughly on the psychological wreckage of 9/11 America than the Iron Man series. True, its source material remains the popular Marvel comic, but its reboot in 2008 waded deeply into the morass of terrorism, the military industrial complex, and corporate malfeasance without really addressing any them in any meaningful way. The franchise’s third … [Read More...]
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