Reel vulnerability : : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / / Sarah Hagelin.

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (225 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Unmaking vulnerability
  • part 1.
  • 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
  • part 2.
  • New 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
  • part 3.
  • 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.