This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen. To date, masculinity has tended to be presented in cinema studies as a monolithic category that serves the interest...

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Main Author:	Fox, Alistair 1948- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York Anthem Press 2023
Subjects:	Geschichte Melodrama > Film Männlichkeit > Motiv Melodrama in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Motion pictures / History / 20th century Motion pictures 1900-1999 History
Summary:	This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen. To date, masculinity has tended to be presented in cinema studies as a monolithic category that serves the interests of a hegemonic, normative patriarchy. This book demonstrates how the art-house film, in the form of personal cinema and its exploitation of the melodramatic mode, tells a different story, presenting a vision of masculinity that is sexually fluid, fragmented, unstable, and often incapacitated to the point of paralysis, being undermined not only from within, but also by external circumstance. Hollywood, in the form of "male weepies," offered preliminary insights into this failing masculinity, but it is with the flowering of Post-World War II art film and its subsequent movement into the "indie" waves of the late 20th century and the early 21st century that cinema more profoundly realizes its potential to serve as a vehicle for the exploration of men's interior lives, developing what might be termed the "male melodrama," the correlative of the woman's film
Physical Description:	xiii, 220 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9781839984075