Hagelin, Sarah.

Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin. - 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unmaking vulnerability -- part 1. -- 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 2. -- 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 3. -- 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.

9780813561059 (e-book)


Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures.
Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
Pain in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.V85 / H34 2013eb

791.43/655