TY - BOOK AU - Hagelin,Sarah TI - Reel vulnerability: power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television SN - 9781461944713 AV - PN1995 .R445 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey, London PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Vulnerability (Personality trait) in motion pictures KW - Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures KW - Pain in motion pictures KW - Sex role in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - United States KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: Unmaking vulnerability --; Part I, The cinematic construction of vulnerability: The furies, the men, and the method: Cinematic languages of vulnerability --; Victimized, violent and damned: Identification and radical vulnerability in The deer hunter, Full metal jacket, and Casualties of war --; Part II, New vulnerability after The Cold War: The body at war: Sexual politics and resistant vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane --; Matthew Shepard's body and the politics of queer vulnerability in Boys don't cry and The Laramie Project --; Part III, Vulnerability beyond the body: The violated body after 9/11: Torture and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica --; Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form --; Afterword: Female power and Tarantino's Basterds; 2; b N2 - 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. It 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=645329&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -