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Index
Cover
Author biography
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Freedom and Vengeance at the Movies
Approaching the Cultural Politics of Film
JFK and Cultural Politics
1 Opting Out: Into the Wild and the Fantasy of Liberal Independence
Freedom and Power: Complicating the Liberal Subject
Approaching Into the Wild and/as Liberalism
Into the Wild Confirms Yet Subverts Liberal Individualism
Reinscribing Hyper-Individualism
Resisting, Complicating Refusal
Conclusion: Subjects Negotiating Power
2 Avenging Dependence: Mystic River and the Political Ontology of Vulnerability
Vulnerability as the Ontological Condition of Possibility for Subjectivity
Constitutive Vulnerability in Mystic River
Violent and Non-Violent Responses to Losses that Expose Vulnerability
Community and Politics in Light of Vulnerability
3 Grieving Identity Politics: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and the Question of Grievability
Introduction: Revisiting the Western
Subverting Mexican Otherness, Welcoming and the Limits of Recognition
Subverting Revenge and Affirming Precariousness
Conclusion: Losing Mastery, Affirming Precariousness
4 A Predicament of Precarity: Wendy and Lucy and the Impossibility of Neoliberal Self-Care
Introduction: Precarity on Film
Precarity’s Dependency and Neoliberalism’s Self-Care
Wendy’s Predicament
Slowness, or Stuck at an Impasse
Precarity’s Perpetual Present and Receding Future
“Just Callin’,” or, Fraying Social Bonds
Self-Care’s Impossibility
5 Familial Subjectivity and Winter’s Bone
Introduction
Family and the Unchosen
Family Negotiation
Winter’s Bone: Family Auditions
Ree’s “Choice of Inheritance,” Her Declaration of Dependence
Vengeance Refused, Vengeance Embraced
Conclusion: The Unchosen and the Politics of Subjectivity
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Conclusion
Bibliography
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