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Imperial Affects

Imperial Affects
  • Author: Jonna Eagle
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 9780813583051
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 286
  • View: 269

Imperial Affects 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.

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Imperial Affects
Language: en
Pages: 286

Imperial Affects

Authors: Jonna Eagle
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-21 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Imperial Affects 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
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Language: en
Pages: 314

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

Authors: Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-15 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their
Struggles for Recognition
Language: en
Pages: 266

Struggles for Recognition

Authors: Juan Sebastián Ospina León
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-16 - Publisher: University of California Press

Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastián Ospina León draws on extensive archival research to reveal how melodrama visualized and shaped the social arena of urban modernity in early twentieth-century Latin America. Analyzing sociocultural contexts through film, this
Empire of Neglect
Language: en
Pages: 320

Empire of Neglect

Authors: Christopher Taylor
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-18 - Publisher: Duke University Press

Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal
Building Histories
Language: en
Pages: 272

Building Histories

Authors: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful

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