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Imperial Affects : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema / / Jonna Eagle



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Autore: Eagle Jonna Visualizza persona
Titolo: Imperial Affects : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema / / Jonna Eagle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 791.436582
Soggetto topico: Action and adventure films - United States - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: film, 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
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Imperial Affects  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8135-8304-7
0-8135-8305-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819710403321
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Serie: War culture.