Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin.
Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813561042 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813561035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813561059 (e-book)
- 791.43/655 23
- PN1995.9.V85 H34 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unmaking vulnerability -- part 1. -- The cinematic construction of vulnerability -- The furies, the men, and the method: cinematic languages of vulnerability -- Victimized, violent and damned: identification and radical vulnerability in The deer hunter, Full metal jacket, and Casualties of war -- part 2. -- New vulnerability after The Cold War -- The body at war: sexual politics and resistant vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane -- Matthew Shepard's body and the politics of queer vulnerability in Boys don't cry and The Laramie Project -- part 3. -- Vulnerability beyond the body -- The violated body after 9/11: torture, and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica -- Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form -- Afterword -- Female power and Tarantino's basterds.
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