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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Fox, Alistair

Paperback

Film & Video ArtGeneral PsychologySexuality

ISBN10: 183999312X
ISBN13: 9781839993121
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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