Dreaming Identities - Class, Gender, And Generation In 1980s Hollywood Movies (Hardcover)

In this book Elizabeth Traube argues that over the course of the 1980s, Hollywood participated in a wider move by mainstream political and social forces that attempted to absorb and contain critical cultural currents by rehabilitating images of masculine authority. At the movies we saw parallel construetions of wild, antibureaucratic warrior-heroes and smooth, seemingly rebellious tricksters adapted to the corporate order. We saw the demonization of the independent woman and the complementary formation of the nurturing father as her adversary. The author relates these representations to two cultural narratives of long duration-the American frontier myth and the myth of success, or the American dream, both of which also figured prominently in the rhetorical themes of Reagan-era politics. Utilizing structuralism, Marxism, feminist object relations psychoanalysis, and neoformalist film criticism, Traube emphasizes specific aspects of cinematic representations of gender and authority to explore the relationships between culture and politics. Unlike other feminist critics of aEUROoepatriarchal Hollywood,aEURO she stresses the multiple, competing versions of masculinity and femininity constructed in Hollywood movies and the different class positions of their primary, intended audiences. Attention to particular forms that cultural narratives assume in changing circumstances gives Traube's film analyses a unique sociohistorical dimension, while her focus on narratives used by political elites as well as by moviemakers reveals significant variations in ideology production in different sites.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	1992
Authors:	Elizabeth G. Traube
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-00431-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-00431-3
Barcode:	9780367004316

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