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