Imperial Affects : Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema / Jonna Eagle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eagle, Jonna, Author.

Series:

War culture.

War Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action and adventure films--United States--History and criticism.

Action and adventure films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Making Sense: Th e Moral and Aff ective Appeals of Melodrama

1. A Rough Ride: Cinema, War, and the Strenuous Life

2. Manifest Destiny in Action: Sensational Melodrama and the Advent of the Western

3. Western Weepies: The Power of Pathos in the Cold War Western

4. The Subject of Imperiled Privilege: Victimization and Violence in Late-Century Action Cinema

Epilogue. To Be Real: Virtual Violence in the Twenty-First Century

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9780813583044

0813583047

9780813583051

0813583055

OCLC:

992436663