Waubonsee Community College

Imperial affects, sensational melodrama and the attractions of American cinema, Jonna Eagle

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-262) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Imperial affects

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Jonna Eagle

War culture

sensational melodrama and the attractions of American cinema

"In American culture and history, a feeling of national identity and belonging have often derived from a sense of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Sympathy and aggression operate as twinned affects in such contexts, with representations of an assaulted national body animating identification with nationalist violence and its agents. In Imperial Affects, Jonna Eagle turns to the workings of American cinema to understand the power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure representations of imperialist motion and violence across the twentieth century"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction. Making sense : the moral and affective appeals of melodrama -- A rough ride : cinema, war, and the strenuous life -- Manifest destiny in action : sensational melodrama and the advent of the western -- Western weepies : the power of pathos in the Cold War western -- The subject of imperiled privilege : victimization and violence in late-century action cinema -- Epilogue. To be real : virtual violence in the twenty-first century