Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Settings, Spectacle, and the Other: Picturing Disgust in Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Chapter 3 Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Magical Spectacle in the Harry Potter Films

Chapter 4 Pirate Politics and the Spectacle of the Other: Pirates of the Caribbean

Chapter 5 Resurrection, Anthropomorphism, and Cold War Echoes in Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Chapter 6 The Aesthetics of Trauma: Temporality and Multidirectional Memory in Pan’s Labyrinth

Chapter 7 Reframing the Cold War in the Twenty-First Century: Action, Nostalgia, and Nuclear Holocaust in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Chapter 8 The Ecstasy of Chaos: Mediations of 9/11, Terrorism, and Traumatic Memory in The Dark Knight

Chapter 9 Wounding, Morality, and Torture: Reflections of the War on Terror in Iron Man and Iron Man 2

Chapter 10 Shock and Awe: Terror, Technology, and the Sublime Nature of Cameron’s Avatar

Chapter 11 Conclusion