| Description |
ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 193-202) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Unmaking vulnerability -- Part I, The cinematic construction of vulnerability: The furies, the men, and the method: Cinematic languages of vulnerability -- Victimized, violent and damned: Identification and radical vulnerability in The deer hunter, Full metal jacket, and Casualties of war -- Part II, New vulnerability after The Cold War: The body at war: Sexual politics and resistant vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane -- Matthew Shepard's body and the politics of queer vulnerability in Boys don't cry and The Laramie Project -- Part III, Vulnerability beyond the body: The violated body after 9/11: Torture and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica -- Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form -- Afterword: Female power and Tarantino's Basterds. |
| Subject |
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures.
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Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures. |
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Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
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Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures. |
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Pain in motion pictures.
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Pain in motion pictures. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
| ISBN |
0813561043 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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0813561035 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780813561042 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780813561035 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780813561059 (ebook) |
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