Reel Vulnerability : Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hagelin, Sarah
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
Pain in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Douleur au cinema.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) au cinema.
Vulnerabilite (Trait de personnalite) au cinema.
Motion pictures > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 World War II, the Cold War, and 9/11, placing defenseless male bodies onscreen alongside representations of the female body in the military, in the interrogation room, and on the margins.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813561035

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