Imperial Affects : : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema / / Jonna Eagle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Eagle, Jonna,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: War Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 25 photographs

Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an American national subject constituted as both victimized and invincible-a powerful and persistent conjunction traced here across a century of cinema.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Making Sense: Th e Moral and Aff ective Appeals of Melodrama -- 1. A Rough Ride: Cinema, War, and the Strenuous Life -- 2. Manifest Destiny in Action: Sensational Melodrama and the Advent of the Western -- 3. Western Weepies: The Power of Pathos in the Cold War Western -- 4. The Subject of Imperiled Privilege: Victimization and Violence in Late-Century Action Cinema -- Epilogue. To Be Real: Virtual Violence in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index