02856nam 22004935 450 991081971040332120230809224857.00-8135-8304-70-8135-8305-510.36019/9780813583051(CKB)3710000001416198(MiAaPQ)EBC4789878(OCoLC)992436663(MdBmJHUP)muse57330(DE-B1597)529517(DE-B1597)9780813583051(EXLCZ)99371000000141619820191126d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierImperial Affects Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema /Jonna EagleNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (276 pages) illustrationsWar Culture0-8135-8303-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexImperial 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.War culture.Action and adventure filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismfilm, film history, black and white, cinematography, film studies, classic film, cinema studies, cinema, directing, america, american, nationalism, war, military, imperialism, imperialist, violence, 1900s, twentieth century.Action and adventure filmsHistory and criticism.791.436582Eagle Jonna, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1611867DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910819710403321Imperial Affects3940330UNINA