The Remasculation Film: Themes and Variations

ISBN-13: 9783639701487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Adam Miller

Opis

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a discourse of masculinity crisis precipitated the appearance of a number of what Susan Jeffords describes as "rearticulations of screen masculinity," which influenced the production of a group of films whose narrative diegeses reaffirmed the heteronormative, hypermasculine façade onscreen. These films are identified and defined in this book as remasculation pictures, or narratives that showcase the heros oscillation between two oppositional expressions of screen masculinity. In the rhetoric of the remasculation film, the protagonists emasculation initiates a quest to remasculate by reaffirming the dominance and authority of the hypermasculine archetype.

O autorze

With a background in English Literature, Adam Miller obtained his Ph.D. in Communications and Culture with a specialty in Cinema Studies at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. As a professor at Sheridan College, Humber College, and Ryerson University, Adam continues his work in Film Studies.