UID:
edocfu_9959155502302883
Format:
1 online resource (286 p.) :
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25 photographs
ISBN:
9780813583051
Series Statement:
War Culture
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Making Sense: Th e Moral and Aff ective Appeals of Melodrama --
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1. A Rough Ride: Cinema, War, and the Strenuous Life --
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2. Manifest Destiny in Action: Sensational Melodrama and the Advent of the Western --
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3. Western Weepies: The Power of Pathos in the Cold War Western --
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4. The Subject of Imperiled Privilege: Victimization and Violence in Late-Century Action Cinema --
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Epilogue. To Be Real: Virtual Violence in the Twenty-First Century --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813583051
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813583051
