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Myths of Masculinity and American Film examines ideologies of white American manhood that permeated U.S. culture between 1974 and 2016—the period in which the boys of Generation X grew into adulthood.
Stephen R. Duncan argues that the mass media of movies and television, along with some popular novels, music, and certain newsworthy events, can help reveal these ideologies—for good and for ill—as they dramatically changed in the wake of the social movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. Tracing how 'presidential patriarchy' and cinematic representations of white manhood evolved in these decades, the book explores the resulting reinforced ethos of masculine individualism that underpinned popular support for Trumpism by 2016. It demonstrates that the key that unlocks the connections between culture and politics is a discourse around patriarchy that is shared both by films of this period and popular perceptions of presidents, from Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, to Bush, Clinton, and Obama.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. media and cultural history, American Studies, and gender studies.
Contents
Introduction 1: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Cinematic Manhood in the Carter Years 2: Blasts from the Past—and Present and Future: The Reagan Revolution and Movie Masculinity, 1981-86 3: Land of Confusion: Presidential Patriarchy and American Films from Reagan to the New World Order 4: Touched: Singular Cinematic Heroism and the Rise and Fall of New American Manhood in the Clinton Era 5: In a World...: Superheroes, Saviors, and Paranoid Cinematic Universes in the Age of Terror 6: Waiting...and Waiting, for Superman Conclusion: American Dreams, or American Carnage?
