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Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Morality Burns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

CYNTHIA WEBER
CYNTHIA WEBER
Affiliation:
Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD.
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Extract

Michael Moore's 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11 is a visual and narrative tour de force that critiques everything from the controversial conditions under which George W. Bush assumed the US presidency to President Bush's handling of his so-called “war on terror.” With its tagline “The temperature where freedom burns,” Moore stresses the dubious ethical nature of the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies, especially as they redefine the US relationship between freedom and censorship. In so doing, he challenges the Bush administration's constructions of US morality as ultimately elitist and self-serving, substituting his own populist, class-based moral America(n) in its place.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , April 2006 , pp. 113 - 131
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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