{"product_id":"reel-vulnerability-power-pain-and-gender-in-contemporary-american-film-and-television-hardback-9780813561042","title":"Reel Vulnerability; Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television (Hardback) 9780813561042","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReel Vulnerability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePower, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Hagelin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813561042\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 July 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages, 24 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.438 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“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes \u003ci\u003eReel Vulnerability \u003c\/i\u003ea welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Dennis Bingham (author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Susan Jeffords (University of Washington)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWonder 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? \u003ci\u003eReel Vulnerability\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eG.I. Jane\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaving Private Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as such post-9\/11 television shows as \u003ci\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeadwood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHagelin’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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Furies, The Men, and the Method\u003cbr\u003e2. Victimized, Violent, and Damned\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The Body at War\u003cbr\u003e4. Matthew Shepard’s Body and the Politics of Queer Vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Violated Body after 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e6. Vulnerability by Proxy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\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":52559333687576,"sku":"9780813561042","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reel-vulnerability-power-pain-and-gender-in-contemporary-american-film-and-television-hardback-9780813561042","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}