Title Imperial affects : sensational melodrama and the attractions of American cinema / Jonna Eagle

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series War culture War culture. Contents Introduction. Making sense : the moral and affective appeals of melodrama -- A rough ride : cinema, war, and the strenuous life -- Manifest destiny in action : sensational melodrama and the advent of the western -- Western weepies : the power of pathos in the Cold War western -- The subject of imperiled privilege : victimization and violence in late-century action cinema -- Epilogue. To be real : virtual violence in the twenty-first century Summary "In American culture and history, a feeling of national identity and belonging have often derived from a sense of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Sympathy and aggression operate as twinned affects in such contexts, with representations of an assaulted national body animating identification with nationalist violence and its agents. In Imperial Affects, Jonna Eagle turns to the workings of American cinema to understand the power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure representations of imperialist motion and violence across the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism Western films -- United States -- History and criticism National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. Melodrama in motion pictures. Violence in motion pictures. Imperialism in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. Action and adventure films Imperialism in motion pictures Melodrama in motion pictures National characteristics, American, in motion pictures Violence in motion pictures Western films United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813583051 0813583055 9780813583044 0813583047

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