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Home front heroes - Elizabeth Abele

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Title
Home front heroes - the rise of a new Hollywood archetype, 1988-1999
Author
Elizabeth Abele
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20131130

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of the stoic loner committed solely to duty. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries.

The author presents pieces of contemporary popular culture that create the complex mosaic of the present-day American heroic ideal. Hollywood popular films are examined that best represent the often painful shift from traditional heroic masculinity to a masculinity that is less ""exceptional"" and more vulnerable. There are also chapters on how issues of race and gender intersect with the new masculinity, and on subgenres of 1990s films that also developed this postfeminist masculinity.

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Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Heroes in motion pictures.|Masculinity in motion pictures.|Motion pictures - United States.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
vii, 263

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