Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema by Jonna Eagle

Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema

War Culture

Jonna Eagle

286 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction art gender history medium-paced
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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 sit...

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