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Armed Forces : Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film / Robert Eberwein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 41Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813540795
  • 9780813541501
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/658 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W3 E24 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Definitions -- 1. Paradigms in the Silent Era -- 2. Beyond Triangles -- 3. Disavowing Threats -- 4. Wounds -- 5. Drag -- 6. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” -- 7. Bodies,Weapons -- 8. Fathers and Sons -- Conclusion: Buddies, Then and Now -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: In war films, the portrayal of deep friendships between men is commonplace. Given the sexually anxious nature of the American imagination, such bonds are often interpreted as carrying a homoerotic subtext. In Armed Forces , Robert Eberwein argues that an expanded conception of masculinity and sexuality is necessary in order to understand more fully the intricacy of these intense and emotional human relationships. Drawing on a range of examples from silent films such as What Price Glory and Wings to sound era works like The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Three Kings, and Pearl Harbor , he shows how close readings of war films, particularly in relation to their cultural contexts, demonstrate that depictions of heterosexual love, including those in romantic triangles, actually help to define and clarify the nonsexual nature of male love. The book also explores the problematic aspects of masculinity and sexuality when threatened by wounds, as in The Best Years of Our Lives, and considers the complex and persistent analogy between weapons and the male body, as in Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan .
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Definitions -- 1. Paradigms in the Silent Era -- 2. Beyond Triangles -- 3. Disavowing Threats -- 4. Wounds -- 5. Drag -- 6. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” -- 7. Bodies,Weapons -- 8. Fathers and Sons -- Conclusion: Buddies, Then and Now -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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In war films, the portrayal of deep friendships between men is commonplace. Given the sexually anxious nature of the American imagination, such bonds are often interpreted as carrying a homoerotic subtext. In Armed Forces , Robert Eberwein argues that an expanded conception of masculinity and sexuality is necessary in order to understand more fully the intricacy of these intense and emotional human relationships. Drawing on a range of examples from silent films such as What Price Glory and Wings to sound era works like The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Three Kings, and Pearl Harbor , he shows how close readings of war films, particularly in relation to their cultural contexts, demonstrate that depictions of heterosexual love, including those in romantic triangles, actually help to define and clarify the nonsexual nature of male love. The book also explores the problematic aspects of masculinity and sexuality when threatened by wounds, as in The Best Years of Our Lives, and considers the complex and persistent analogy between weapons and the male body, as in Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan .

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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