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The Lost Boy

Hayes, Leda, Hayes
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510933652950512

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
The following thesis seeks to contribute to contemporary masculinities scholarship by exploring the recent deployment, on and among 20th and 21st century MIC telecommunications, of the myth of the lost boy. It begins with a close look at the origin of the myth of the lost boy, a form first authored as a revision to modernity’s myth of the boy by New Imperialists who sought to justify the long term occupation of colonial territories and protectorates and thus shifted, away from an earlier model of domestic masculinity that pressed forward towards an exhaustive known, rational, and developed; and towards a model of masculinity that was restricted to a Bakhtinian adventure time of serial story, homosocial partnership, and performances of primal boyhood. After a subsequent exploration of the medium and mandates of MIC synergy, that utilizes Marshall McLuhan’s science of medium, this thesis offers that a late 20th and early 21st century community among such Futurama discovers, within the lost boy 2.0 it embraces, a configuration of masculinity that can remasculinize Futurama’s dogma of networked node. While the myth of the lost boy is often popularly proposed to be problematic, detached, and disordered, my research suggests that the myth is instead a restorative configuration that discovers the model of network within Futurama to be inspired by an organic, empowered masculine affection: far from lost, the lost boy of 2017 is the heart of labor, kinship, narrative, and life. The myth of the lost boy 2.0 offers the 21st century a masculinity that naturalizes the radical and new of MIC telecommunications by discovering the form of network within a man.
Becca Cragin, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Jeremy Wallach, Dr. (Committee Member)
Esther Clinton, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jeffrey Brown, Dr. (Committee Member)
95 p.
American Literature; American Studies; British and Irish Literature; Film Studies; Gender; Gender Studies; Information Technology; Literature; Modern Literature; Motion Pictures; Web Studies; Womens Studies
masculinity; masculinitites; American Culture; 21st Century; network; Futurama; lost boy; Peter Pan; remasculinization; McLuhan; Jeffords; Kleinrock

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  • Hayes, Hayes, L. (2017). The Lost Boy [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510933652950512

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hayes, Hayes, Leda. The Lost Boy . 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510933652950512.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hayes, Hayes, Leda. "The Lost Boy ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510933652950512

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