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Imperial Affects : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema /
"In American culture and history, a feeling of national identity and belonging have often derived from a sense of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Sympathy and aggression operate as twinned affects in such contexts, with representations of an assaulted national body animating identification wit...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Making sense : the moral and affective appeals of melodrama
- A rough ride : cinema, war, and the strenuous life
- Manifest destiny in action : sensational melodrama and the advent of the western
- Western weepies : the power of pathos in the Cold War western
- The subject of imperiled privilege : victimization and violence in late-century action cinema
- Epilogue. To be real : virtual violence in the twenty-first century.