Washed in Blood : : Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema /

Washed in Blood : : Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema / / Claire Sisco King.

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Will Smith in I Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything. Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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King, Claire Sisco,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 24
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Reel Presence, Sacrifice, and the Cinema
  • Chapter 2. Unhinged Heroes and Alpha Traumas
  • Chapter 3. Free falls in the 1990s
  • Chapter 4. Remakes, Resurrections, and Sacrificial Returns
  • Epilogue. Big-Screen Memories
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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