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Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813561059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/655 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.V85 H34 2013
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Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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