ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that causalities of noncompliance, rendered insidious by the authority due to their contesting erratic commands, figuratively encapsulate the American public coming to grips with disallowed dissent and the prospect of punishment in the post-9/11 world. It reveals that the cynical and highly ironic Post-9/11 Heartland Horror film is profoundly concerned with the degeneration of authority figures whose unprecedented efforts to sell an ideology ends in their own demise. This book argues that Post-9/11 Heartland Horror has the capacity to rouse reactions in the post-9/11 public sphere that query the imposing narrative of American exceptionalism and its insistence on extraordinary loyalty and impeccable patriotism as political practice. The films in the book confront and challenge the reassuring black and whiteness of post-9/11 historical narratives and notions of national identity employed to pacify the American public in the aftermath of 9/11.
