Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments — ix Introduction: Unmaking Vulnerability — 1 Part I The Cinematic Construction of Vulnerability 1 The Furies, The Men, and the Method: Cinematic Languages of Vulnerability — 23 2 Victimized, Violent, and Damned: Identification and Radical Vulnerability in The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, and Casualties of War — 49 Part II Resistant Vulnerability after the Cold War 3 The Body at War: Sexual Politics and Resistant Vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane — 71 4 Matthew Shepard’s Body and the Politics of Queer Vulnerability in Boys Don’t Cry and The Laramie Project — 103 Part III Vulnerability beyond the Body 5 The Violated Body after 9/11: Torture and the Legacy of Vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica — 119 6 Vulnerability by Proxy: Deadwood and the Future of Television Form — 142 Afterword: Female Power and Tarantino’s Basterds — 159 Notes — 167 Bibliography — 193 Index — 203 ...