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

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

Mackey-Kallis, Susan
Johnston, Brian

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1793626073
ISBN13: 9781793626073
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 12 2023
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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