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Orgies of feeling : melodrama and the politics of freedom / Elisabeth R. Anker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anker, Elisabeth R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions--Political aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Emotions.
- Political oratory--United States--History--21st century.
- Political oratory.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power. Through readings of melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory, she argues that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power.
- Contents:
- Introduction: melodrama and the politics of freedom
- The venomous eye: melodrama, media, and national identity after 9/11
- The melodramatic style of American politics: a transnational history
- Felt legitimacy: victimization and affect in the expansion of state power
- Orgies of feeling: terror, agency, and the failure of the (neo)liberal individual
- Heroic identifications; or, you can love me too
- I am so like the state
- Left melodrama
- Conclusion. melodramas of failed sovereignty: the War on Terror as a women's weepie.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356974
- 082235697X
- 9780822376545
- 0822376547
- OCLC:
- 884015885
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