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

• Autore: Eagle Jonna
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8135-8304-7; 0-8135-8305-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819710403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: War culture.