Troubling masculinities : terror, gender, and monstrous others in American film post-9/11 /

"Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres-in...

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Main Author: Donnar, Glen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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?".