Defeated masculinity
Subtitle: post-traumatic cinema in the aftermath of war
By: Raya Morag.
Series: Rethinking cinema -- no. 4
Publisher: P.I.E. Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9789052014692
Subjects: 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
Notes: Filmography: p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Post-traumatic cinema; title: Post-traumatic new German cinema after World War II. Identity, identification, and sexuality; title: Three complexes: continuity, authenticity and masculinity; title: Mourning work, undermining melancholy; title: Gender and excesses of the past; title: Mutant sexuality; title: Three models: infantile asexual, utopian bisexual, transsexual; title: The infantile asexual model; title: Description of the model; title: Kaspar: the genderless body; title: Oskar: the body, the drum, the voice; title: Two faces of revolt, one body; title: Redemption through mirror relations: Paris, Texas; title: The utopian bisexual model; title: Description of the model; title: The journey into childhood: Kings of the road; title: The transsexual model; title: Description of the model; title: Disembodied voice; title: Post-traumatic NGC models; title: Return of the displaced; title: Subverting the paradigm of mourning work; title: NGC: radicalism towards the past; title: Neither betrayal of the fatherland nor heimat; title: Between narrative fetishism and body memory; title: Multifaceted reflexivity; title: Return of history as body; title: American post-traumatic cinema in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Captivity, crisis, and fantasy; title: Dialectics of defeat: from hunter to captive; title: Oedipal structures, fraternal structures: patricide, fratricide; title: Masculinity without symbolization; title: Sexuality; title: Motifs in Vietnam War films; title: Three models: asexual hyper-masculine, homoerotic, impotent; title: The asexual hyper-masculine model; title: Description of the model; title: The deer hunter; title: Defeated masculinity and the negation of history; title: Rescue vs. asexuality: Rambo, Braddock, Forrest; title: Murderer vs. the other: Taxi driver; title: The tortured body; title: The homoerotic model; title: Description of the model; title: Patricide and failure: Full metal jacket; title: Destroying fraternal masculinity in order to save it: Platoon; title: The impotent model; title: Description of the model; title: Radical sexuality in Coming home; title: The abjected to the symbolic body: Born on the 4th of July; title: Adaptation-subversion; title: Post-traumatic Vietnam War cinema models; title: Conclusion.