{"product_id":"imperial-affects-sensational-melodrama-and-the-attractions-of-american-cinema-hardback-9780813583037","title":"Imperial Affects; Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema (Hardback) 9780813583037","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperial Affects\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonna Eagle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813583037\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages, 25 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Eagle skillfully juggles debates around the meaning and cultural relevance of melodrama, the relationship between sensationalism and modernity, and the cultural work done by the Western. This is a first-rate book that makes important contributions to film studies, American studies, and cultural studies more broadly.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Sarah Hagelin (author of Reel Vulnerability) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Rich in historical and critical insights, Eagle vividly demonstrates why the intimate connection between melodrama and action\/violence matters so profoundly for our thinking about the cinema, gender, race and nationalism.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Yvonne Tasker (author of Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eImperial Affects\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction Making Sense: The Moral and Affective Appeals of Melodrama  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e The Felt Good of Melodrama  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Affective Attunement and the Structuring of Feeling   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Visceral Politics   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Imperial Affects   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Rough Ride: Cinema, War, and the Strenuous Life  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Theodore Roosevelt and the Discourse of the Strenuous Life   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Strenuous Spectacle in the Theater of War   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Strenuous Spectatorship and the Early Cinema of Assaults   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Manifest Destiny in Action: Sensational Melodrama and the Advent of the Western  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Sensational Melodrama and Western Attractions   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e The Visceral and Moral Thrills of Western Action   \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Moving Men: Heroic Action and the Morality of Motion   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Western Weepies: The Power of Pathos in the Cold War Western  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Questioning Authority: Masculinity, Morality, and the Cold War Western    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e The White Man’\u003cbr\u003es Indian: Race and Redemption in the Pro-Indian Cycle    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eWhat am I supposed to do, cry  Feel sorry for him ”\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Suffer and Be Hard: The Power of Pathos    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Subject of Imperiled Privilege: Victimization and Violence in Late-Century Action Cinema  \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Spectacular Agonies, Sensational Redemptions: \u003ci\u003eRambo \u003c\/i\u003eas Melodrama    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLethal Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDie Hard\u003c\/i\u003e, and the New Pleasures of Action    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e There’\u003cbr\u003es No Place Like Home: \u003ci\u003eFalling Down\u003c\/i\u003e and the Subject of Imperiled Privilege    \u003cbr\u003e •\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Forgiveness: \u003ci\u003eUnforgiven\u003c\/i\u003e and the Limitations of Critique    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue To Be Real: Virtual Violence in the Twenty-First Century  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563702022424,"sku":"9780813583037","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperial-affects-sensational-melodrama-and-the-attractions-of-american-cinema-hardback-9780813583037","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}