This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights
movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting
in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured
masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of
the stoic loner committed solely to duty. The American heroic quest
of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of
home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more
intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial
boundaries. The author presents pieces of contemporary popular
culture that create the complex mosaic of the present-day American
heroic ideal. Hollywood popular films are examined that best
represent the often painful shift from traditional heroic
masculinity to a masculinity that is less ""exceptional"" and more
vulnerable. There are also chapters on how issues of race and
gender intersect with the new masculinity, and on subgenres of
1990s films that also developed this postfeminist masculinity.
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