Research Catalog

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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Holdings

Details

Description

ix, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

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

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library