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

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

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Description
ix, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures
  • Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures
  • Pain in motion pictures
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Unmaking vulnerability -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.
Call Number
MFL 13-4976
ISBN
  • 9780813561042 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813561043 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813561035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813561035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780813561059 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012038529
OCLC
816498988
Author
Hagelin, Sarah.
Title
Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin.
Publisher
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 13-4976
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