Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film (eBook)

Brian Johnston, Susan Mackey-Kallis (Autoren)

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2023
262 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
9798216249214 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on texts and theorists of Greek myth, psychoanalysis, and masculinities, Susan Mackey-Kallis and Brian Johnston develop and offer a model of rhetorical and mythic criticism to analyze popular American film. In this book, Mackey-Kallis and Johnston focus their analysis on films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal our collective gendered cultural wounds. Many of these "e;mystic"e; films, they contend, affirm the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, integration of the feminine, self-sacrifice, and transcendence as antidotes to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition. Ultimately, the authors argue for the importance of digging into the substance of cultural wounds - rather than superficially suturing them over - to change the conversation about woundedness and provide a roadmap for healing gendered relations in contemporary American culture. The book concludes with a discussion of Joseph Campbell's interpretation of the metaphorical power of myth and its transcendent function to argue for a theory of "e;us"e;, rather than a theory of "e;us versus them."e; Scholars of film, gender studies, American studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-13: 9798216249214 / 9798216249214