Rosalind Sibielski

Grief, Madness, and Crises of Masculinity in Mind-Game Films

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes mind-game films and TV series featuring male protagonists who retreat into imagined realities to cope with trauma and grief. It examines their stories of intersecting crises of reality and crises of masculinity within the context of U.S. culture wars over the way that manhood should be enacted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781666936445
• ISBN-10: 1666936448
• Artikelnr.: 71230741

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Sibielski is assistant professor of English and film studies at Rhode Island College

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Mad With Grief: Trauma, Loss, and the Fracturing of Reality in Mind-Game
Films
Chapter 2
Crisis of Reality as Crisis of the Patriarch: Grief, Guilt, and the
Failures of Husbands and Fathers in Memento, Inception, and Shutter Island
Chapter 3
The Stuff of (Urban) Legend: Making Sense of Loss and What It Means to Be a
Man in Urbania
Chapter 4
Lost Mothers, Abusive Fathers, and Damaged Sons: Alternate Realities and
Oedipal Crises in Bandersnatch and Mr. Robot
Chapter 5
Spectacles of Grief and Madness: The Visual Representation and
Fetishization of Mental Health Crises in Mind-Game Media Narratives