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  1. Troubling masculinities
    terror, gender, and monstrous others in American film post-9/11
    Author: Donnar, Glen
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    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... more

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    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?" -- Notes -- Filmography -- Works cited -- Index. ; Introduction "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-including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns-author Glen Donnar examines the impact of "terror-Others," from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood's attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting. Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history"-- "A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781496828620
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    Subjects: Masculinity in motion pictures; Motion pictures and men; Motion pictures, American; Terrorist <Motiv>; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Film
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Troubling masculinities
    terror, gender, and monstrous others in American film post-9/11
    Author: Donnar, Glen
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    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... more

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    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?" -- Notes -- Filmography -- Works cited -- Index "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-including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns-author Glen Donnar examines the impact of "terror-Others," from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood's attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting. Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history"-- "A challenge to claims about the popular project of masculine redemption in recent genre films"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781496828620
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism; Masculinity in motion pictures; Motion pictures and men; Motion pictures, American
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index