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Reel vulnerability power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television

Title: Reel vulnerability [electronic resource] : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin.
Author: Hagelin, Sarah.
Publication: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, 2013.

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1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations.

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Reel vulnerability (Online)

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Reel vulnerability (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (page 193-202) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: Unmaking vulnerability -- Part I, 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 II, 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 III, 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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