LEADER 02856nam 22004935 450 001 9910819710403321 005 20230809224857.0 010 $a0-8135-8304-7 010 $a0-8135-8305-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813583051 035 $a(CKB)3710000001416198 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789878 035 $a(OCoLC)992436663 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57330 035 $a(DE-B1597)529517 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813583051 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001416198 100 $a20191126d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperial Affects $eSensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema /$fJonna Eagle 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ : $cRutgers University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aWar Culture 311 $a0-8135-8303-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. Making Sense: Th e Moral and Aff ective Appeals of Melodrama -- $t1. A Rough Ride: Cinema, War, and the Strenuous Life -- $t2. Manifest Destiny in Action: Sensational Melodrama and the Advent of the Western -- $t3. Western Weepies: The Power of Pathos in the Cold War Western -- $t4. The Subject of Imperiled Privilege: Victimization and Violence in Late-Century Action Cinema -- $tEpilogue. To Be Real: Virtual Violence in the Twenty-First Century -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aImperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an American national subject constituted as both victimized and invincible-a powerful and persistent conjunction traced here across a century of cinema. 410 0$aWar culture. 606 $aAction and adventure films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 610 $afilm, film history, black and white, cinematography, film studies, classic film, cinema studies, cinema, directing, america, american, nationalism, war, military, imperialism, imperialist, violence, 1900s, twentieth century. 615 0$aAction and adventure films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.436582 700 $aEagle$b Jonna, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01611867 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819710403321 996 $aImperial Affects$93940330 997 $aUNINA