| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The apocalyptic male -- Doomsday Preppers: the man-pocalypse -- The red pill: the new men's rights rhetoric -- Incel rebellion: fascism and male autarky -- Sun's out, guns out: open carry and the white male body -- Midnight in America: Donald J. Trump and political sadomasochism -- Conclusion: Return to Charlottesville |
| Summary |
Exemplified by President Donald J. Trump's slogan "Make American Great Again," white masculinity has become increasingly organized around melancholic attachments to an imagined past when white men were still atop the social hierarchy. How and why are white men increasingly identifying as victims of social, economic, and political change? Casey Ryan Kelly's Apocalypse Man seeks to answer this question by examining textual and performative examples of white male rhetoric--as found among online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and "doomsday preppers," gender-motivated mass shooters, gun activists, and political demagogues. Using sources ranging from reality television and Reddit manifestos to gun culture and political rallies, Kelly ultimately argues that death, victimhood, and fatalism have come to underwrite the constitution of contemporary white masculinity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Men, White -- In mass media
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Masculinity in mass media.
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Death instinct -- In mass media
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Identity (Psychology) and mass media -- United States
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Rhetoric.
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Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes
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Masculinity -- Political aspects -- United States
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Identity politics.
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White people -- In mass media
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rhetoric (discipline)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
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Men, White, in mass media
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Death instinct in mass media
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Identity politics
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Identity (Psychology) and mass media
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Masculinity in mass media
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Masculinity -- Political aspects
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Mass media
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Rhetoric
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814280713 |
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0814280714 |
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