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Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film - Couverture rigide

Mackey-Kallis, Susan; Johnston, Brian

 
9781793626073: Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1793626073 ISBN 13 : 9781793626073
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

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 "mystic" 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 "us", rather than a theory of "us versus them." Scholars of film, gender studies, American studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.

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À propos des auteurs

Susan Mackey-Kallis is professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.

Brian Johnston is assistant professor of communication in the Department of Language and Literature at Glenville State University.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1793626073
ISBN 13 
9781793626073
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
262
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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