Washed in Blood : : Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema / / Claire Sisco King.
Will Smith in I Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything. Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 24 |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reel Presence, Sacrifice, and the Cinema -- Chapter 2. Unhinged Heroes and Alpha Traumas -- Chapter 3. Free falls in the 1990s -- Chapter 4. Remakes, Resurrections, and Sacrificial Returns -- Epilogue. Big-Screen Memories -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Will Smith in I Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything. Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such sacrificial films are especially prominent in eras when the nation-and American manhood-is thought to be in crisis. The sacrificial victim-hero, continually imperiled and frequently exhibiting classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, thus bears the trauma of the nation. Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early-to-mid 1970s, the mid-to-late 1990s, and the mid-to-late 2000s. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film represents traumatized American masculinity and national identity. What she uncovers is a cinematic tendency to position straight white men as America's most valuable citizens-and its noblest victims. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780813552064 9783110688610 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9780813552064 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Claire Sisco King. |