Reel Vulnerability : Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television.
Sarah. Hagelin
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (226 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Furies, The Men, and the Method -- Victimized, Violent, and Damned -- The Body at War -- Matthew Shepard's Body and the Politics of Queer Vulnerability in Boys Don't Cry and The Laramie Pr -- The Violated Body after 9/11 -- Vulnerability by Proxy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.. - Reel Vulnerability explores the way American popular culture thinks about vulnerability, arguing that our culture and our scholarship remain stubbornly invested in the myth of the helplessness of the female body. It examines the shifting constructions of vulnerability in the wake of the cultural upheavals of World War II, the Cold War, and 9/11, placing defenseless male bodies onscreen alongside representations of the female body in the military, in the interrogation room, and on the margins.
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| ISBN | 9780813561059
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