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Raggedy Men
Masculinity in the Mad Max" Films
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 133 kr
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This book investigates anxieties over the role of white masculinity in American society after World War Two articulated in post-apocalyptic film. Using an interdisciplinary approach that employs methods of cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race theory, it argues that masculinity acts as a technology for being-in-the-world that can be used by subjects with bodies coded male or female, employing it as a vehicle for agency. The Mad Max films denaturalize white masculinity by revealing the ways in which it defines the roles of men in a violent hypermasculine masquerade that harms everyone. The films trace Max’s disenfranchisement as he embraces a fugitive masculinity, fleeing social relation and responsibility, finding human connection once more in Miller’s most recent addition to the franchise. This work is useful for anyone teaching masculinity studies as well as those whom wish to better understand the phenomenon of angry white manhood and why masculinity often assumes a life-or-death apocalyptic position in postmodern America.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 614 kr
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Feminist Apocalypse explores how the post-apocalypse is best seen as a narrative mode rather than genre, and its use in cinematic narrative began in the 1950s, largely fueled by the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation.In this book, Ezekiel Crago argues early post-apocalyptic films were primarily concerned with the plight of their usually white male protagonist, but this changed in the 1980s, as films and television shows started focusing instead on white women protagonists. Crago explores post-apocalyptic films such as The Terminator, Dawn of the Dead, Tank Girl, Mad Max: Fury Road, A Quiet Place, etc. and their depictions of women surviving extreme conditions, establishing the theme of the need for others to make surviving livable; women surviving and sometimes thriving through the use of violence and military masculinity; films that center the problem of post-apocalyptic natality and the role of motherhood; the children produced after the end of the world; and examines some works that queer a system of binary gender opposition, suggesting utopian possibility. The interest in the role of women after the end of the world has increased since then, and this book examines such representations of gender using interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, gender studies, culture studies, race studies, and film studies.It argues that these films reveal the ways that the apocalypse has already happened, its effects are not evenly distributed, and that those taking the role of woman are affected by it more than those who act as man. Ultimately, Crago analyzes how the apocalypse acts as allegory for the effects of neoliberal capitalism in the last half century.