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Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television /
This book explores the way American popular culture thinks about vulnerability, arguing that our culture and our scholarship remain stubbornly invested in the myth of the helplessness of the female body. It examines the shifting constructions of vulnerability in the wake of the cultural upheavals of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Unmaking vulnerability
- 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
- Resistant 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
- 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.