Amir Khan is Associate Professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan, PRC. His books include Comedies of Nihilism (2017) and Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016). He is managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Farming out Resentment: Up in the Air.- 3. All War and No Agency: Tropic Thunder.- 4. Tragic Cinema: The Death of Subjectivities in JCVD.- 5. Hiding from Significance: Winnebago Man.- 6. A Claim to Community: The Trotsky.- 7. A Plea for Time in a State of Nature: Be Kind Rewind.- 8. Losing the Name of Action: Hamlet 2.- 9. Conclusion.

Amir Khan is Associate Professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan, PRC. His books include Comedies of Nihilism (2017) and Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016). He is managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Farming out Resentment: Up in the Air.- 3. All War and No Agency: Tropic Thunder.- 4. Tragic Cinema: The Death of Subjectivities in JCVD.- 5. Hiding from Significance: Winnebago Man.- 6. A Claim to Community: The Trotsky.- 7. A Plea for Time in a State of Nature: Be Kind Rewind.- 8. Losing the Name of Action: Hamlet 2.- 9. Conclusion.

Amir Khan is Associate Professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan, PRC. His books include Comedies of Nihilism (2017) and Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016). He is managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Farming out Resentment: Up in the Air.- 3. All War and No Agency: Tropic Thunder.- 4. Tragic Cinema: The Death of Subjectivities in JCVD.- 5. Hiding from Significance: Winnebago Man.- 6. A Claim to Community: The Trotsky.- 7. A Plea for Time in a State of Nature: Be Kind Rewind.- 8. Losing the Name of Action: Hamlet 2.- 9. Conclusion.