Reel Vulnerability : Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television /
Hagelin, Sarah
Reel Vulnerability : Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television / Sarah Hagelin. - 1 online resource (226 p.) : 24 illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unmaking Vulnerability -- Part I. The Cinematic Construction of Vulnerability -- Part II. Resistant Vulnerability after the Cold War -- Part III. Vulnerability beyond the Body -- Afterword: Female Power and Tarantino's Basterds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
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Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? 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. The book 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. Sarah Hagelin challenges the ways film theory and cultural studies confuse vulnerability and femaleness. Such films as G.I. Jane and Saving Private Ryan, as well as such post-9/11 television shows as Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood, present vulnerable men who demand our sympathy, abused women who don't want our pity, and images of the body in pain that do not portray weakness. Hagelin's intent is to help scholarship catch up to the new iconographies emerging in theaters and in living rooms-images that offer viewers reactions to the suffering body beyond pity, identification with the bleeding body beyond masochism, and feminist images of the female body where we least expect to find them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813561042 9780813561059
10.36019/9780813561059 doi
2012038529
Motion pictures--United States.
Pain in motion pictures.
Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
PN1995.9.V85 / H34 2013 PN1995.9.V85 / H34 2013eb
791.43/655
Reel Vulnerability : Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television / Sarah Hagelin. - 1 online resource (226 p.) : 24 illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unmaking Vulnerability -- Part I. The Cinematic Construction of Vulnerability -- Part II. Resistant Vulnerability after the Cold War -- Part III. Vulnerability beyond the Body -- Afterword: Female Power and Tarantino's Basterds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? 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. The book 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. Sarah Hagelin challenges the ways film theory and cultural studies confuse vulnerability and femaleness. Such films as G.I. Jane and Saving Private Ryan, as well as such post-9/11 television shows as Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood, present vulnerable men who demand our sympathy, abused women who don't want our pity, and images of the body in pain that do not portray weakness. Hagelin's intent is to help scholarship catch up to the new iconographies emerging in theaters and in living rooms-images that offer viewers reactions to the suffering body beyond pity, identification with the bleeding body beyond masochism, and feminist images of the female body where we least expect to find them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813561042 9780813561059
10.36019/9780813561059 doi
2012038529
Motion pictures--United States.
Pain in motion pictures.
Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
PN1995.9.V85 / H34 2013 PN1995.9.V85 / H34 2013eb
791.43/655