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Reel Vulnerability
Sarah Hagelin
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Description for Reel Vulnerability
hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages, 24 Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? Reel Vulnerability explores the way American popular culture thinks about vulnerability, arguing that our culture and our scholarship remain stubbornly invested in the myth of the helplessness of the female body.
The book examines the shifting constructions of vulnerability in the wake of the cultural upheavals of World War II, the Cold War, and 9/11, placing defenseless male bodies onscreen alongside representations ... Read more
Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? Reel Vulnerability explores the way American popular culture thinks about vulnerability, arguing that our culture and our scholarship remain stubbornly invested in the myth of the helplessness of the female body.
The book examines the shifting constructions of vulnerability in the wake of the cultural upheavals of World War II, the Cold War, and 9/11, placing defenseless male bodies onscreen alongside representations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813561042
SKU
V9780813561042
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About Sarah Hagelin
SARAH HAGELIN is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Reviews for Reel Vulnerability
“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.”
Dennis Bingham
author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre
"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that ... Read more
Dennis Bingham
author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre
"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that ... Read more