Title Defeated masculinity : post-traumatic cinema in the aftermath of war / Raya Morag

Published Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009

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Description 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Series Rethinking cinema, 1379-8391 ; no. 4 Repenser le cinéma ; no 4 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 Analysis Defeat (Psychology) in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Motion pictures Germany History 20th century Motion pictures United States History 20th century Psychic trauma in motion pictures Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Motion pictures and the war World War, 1939-1945 Influence World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280), filmography, and indexes Subject Masculinity in motion pictures. Defeat (Psychology) in motion pictures. Psychic trauma in motion pictures. World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Motion pictures and the war. Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Genre/Form History. LC no. 2008056114 ISBN 9789052014692 9052014698

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