Return of the Patriarchs:
Authority, Gender, and Reason
in Post-9/11 American Cinema
In 1957, in his book Mythologies, Roland Barthes recommended mapping
the multiple terrains in which various myths and ideologies were spoken (149).
This paper follows in those footsteps by examining a pattern of discourse in
American films after the events of September 11, 2001. An analysis of three
recent films (and a comparison to a film from an X\