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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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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?".