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Troubling Masculinities : Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 /

"A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Donnar, Glen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: remasculinizing American cinema post-9/11
  • "Shielding us from what we are not yet ready to see" : the uniformed hero as victim and in masquerade
  • "I don't know why this is happening" : shamed Everymen and America's own unknowable monsters
  • "I can still fix this" : restoring protective masculinity and/but becoming a monstrous savior
  • "A variation of vengeance" : the inadequacy of revenge in remasculinizing the nation abroad
  • Conclusion: "how do you love your family and leave them to go to war?".