Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
By Jonna Eagle
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By Jonna Eagle
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Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American actionbased cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the latecentury 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 invinciblea powerful and persistent c...






















