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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes
Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.” -- Dennis Bingham * author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre *
"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender."
-- Susan Jeffords * University of Washington *
“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes
Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.” -- Dennis Bingham * author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre *
"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender."
-- Susan Jeffords * University of Washington *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I1. The Furies, The Men, and the Method
2. Victimized, Violent, and Damned
Part II3. The Body at War
4. Matthew Shepard’s Body and the Politics of Queer Vulnerability
Part III5. The Violated Body after 9/11
6. Vulnerability by Proxy
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
