Reel vulnerability [electronic resource] : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Rutgers University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages :) illustrationsISBN:- 9780813561059
- 0813561051
- 791.43/655 23
- PN1995.9.V85 H34 2013
Includes bibliographical references (page 193-202) and index.
Introduction: Unmaking vulnerability -- Part I, 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 II, 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 III, 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.
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