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Masculinity in literature, Psychic trauma, Psychiatry in art, World war, 1939-1945, influence, World war, 1939-1945, motion pictures and the war, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, motion pictures and the war, Motion pictures, germany, Motion pictures, united states, Masculinity in motion pictures, Defeat (Psychology) in motion pictures, Psychic trauma in motion pictures, World War, 1939-1945, Influence, Motion pictures and the war, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Motion pictures, HistoryEdition | Availability |
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Defeated masculinity: post-traumatic cinema in the aftermath of war
2009, P.I.E. Peter Lang
in English
9052014698 9789052014692
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Table of Contents
Introduction. Post-traumatic cinema
Post-traumatic new German cinema after World War II. Identity, identification, and sexuality
Three complexes: continuity, authenticity and masculinity
Mourning work, undermining melancholy
Gender and excesses of the past
Mutant sexuality
Three models: infantile asexual, utopian bisexual, transsexual
The infantile asexual model
Description of the model
Kaspar: the genderless body
Oskar: the body, the drum, the voice
Two faces of revolt, one body
Redemption through mirror relations: Paris, Texas
The utopian bisexual model
Description of the model
The journey into childhood: Kings of the road
The transsexual model
Description of the model
Disembodied voice
Post-traumatic NGC models
Return of the displaced
Subverting the paradigm of mourning work
NGC: radicalism towards the past
Neither betrayal of the fatherland nor heimat
Between narrative fetishism and body memory
Multifaceted reflexivity
Return of history as body
American post-traumatic cinema in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Captivity, crisis, and fantasy
Dialectics of defeat: from hunter to captive
Oedipal structures, fraternal structures: patricide, fratricide
Masculinity without symbolization
Sexuality
Motifs in Vietnam War films
Three models: asexual hyper-masculine, homoerotic, impotent
The asexual hyper-masculine model
Description of the model
The deer hunter
Defeated masculinity and the negation of history
Rescue vs. asexuality: Rambo, Braddock, Forrest
Murderer vs. the other: Taxi driver
The tortured body
The homoerotic model
Description of the model
Patricide and failure: Full metal jacket
Destroying fraternal masculinity in order to save it: Platoon
The impotent model
Description of the model
Radical sexuality in Coming home
The abjected to the symbolic body: Born on the 4th of July
Adaptation-subversion
Post-traumatic Vietnam War cinema models
Conclusion.
Edition Notes
Filmography: p.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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