Troubling masculinities : terror, gender, and monstrous others in American film post-9/11 / Glen Donnar.
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- 791.4365211
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The association of the attacks of 9/11 with Hollywood science fiction and disaster spectacle was immediate and pervasive. Succeeding calls in media and politics for the reassuring return of 'strong' masculine types - predominantly drawn from Hollywood westerns, action and war films - were widespread, revealing renewed cultural fears of threats to America from both within and without. 'Troubling Masculinities' is a multi-genre of representations of masculinity in encounters with terror in post-9/11 American cinema. The text examines the impact of 'terror-Others', from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, across a broad range of sub-genres-including disaster melodrama, monster movies, post-apocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and 'home invasion' horror, action-thrillers and 'frontier' westerns.
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