Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780813583044
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780813583037
- Publisher:
- Rutgers University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/21/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Jonna Eagle
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Entertainment, Military, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government
- Grade Levels:
- College Freshman
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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