Reel Vulnerability

Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television

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de Sarah Hagelin

Type

Studies

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

sociology, gender

Année d'édition

2013

Editeur

Rutgers University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 226 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8135-6103-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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 of the female body in the military, in the interrogation room, and on the margins. Sarah Hagelin challenges the ways film theory and cultural studies confuse vulnerability and femaleness. Such films as G.I. Jane and Saving Private Ryan, as well as such post-9/11 television shows as Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood, present vulnerable men who demand our sympathy, abused women who don’t want our pity, and images of the body in pain that do not portray weakness.

Hagelin’s intent is to help scholarship catch up to the new iconographies emerging in theaters and in living rooms—images that offer viewers reactions to the suffering body beyond pity, identification with the bleeding body beyond masochism, and feminist images of the female body where we least expect to find them.

À propos de l'auteur :
SARAH HAGELIN is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Revue de Presse:
"Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism."
— Dennis Bingham

"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender."

— Susan Jeffords

"Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism."
— Dennis Bingham

"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender."

— Susan Jeffords

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