Claire Sisco King

Washed in Blood

Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such sacrificial films are especially prominent in eras when the nation-and American manhood-is thought to be in crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551609
• ISBN-10: 0813551609
• Artikelnr.: 33771321

Autorenporträt

King, Claire S

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Reel Presence, Sacrifice, and the Cinema
2. Unhinged Heroes and Alpha Traumas
3. Free Falls in the 1990s
4. Remakes, Resurrections, and Sacrificial Returns
Epilogue: Big-Screen Memories
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index