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Washed in Blood : Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema.

Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early-to-mid 1970s, the mid-to-late 1990s, and the mid-to-late 2000s. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Claire Sisco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Reel presence, sacrifice, and the cinema
  • Unhinged heroes and alpha traumas
  • Free falls in the American nineties
  • Remakes, resurrections, and sacrificial returns
  • Epilogue: big screen memories.