Imperial Affects : : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema / / Jonna Eagle.
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. Suffer...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 25 photographs |
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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