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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.