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This article uses Ridley Scott's 2001 blockbuster film BlackHawk Down to examine the claim that popular film is the "newest component of sovereignty." While the topic of the film -the 1993 UN/US intervention in Somalia -lends itself to straightforward politicization, this article is equally interested in the film's production history and its reception by global audiences. While initial reactions to the film focused on its ideological commitments (e.g. racism, collusion between Hollywood and the Pentagon, post-September 11 th patriotism), these readings continually posed an imagined "America" against Cultural Politics

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