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Men and the Movies: Labor, Masculinity, and Shifting Gender Relations in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Carrier, Michael B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430322393

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
This thesis examines the shifting narrative strategies of Hollywood films for preserving patriarchal ideals within the context of changing social gender relations. Over the last thirty years, social progress and economic changes in the United States have left many white, heterosexual, middle-class men feeling anxious about the possible de- escalation of patriarchy. Read symptomatically, the films in this thesis demonstrate a shared desire to reinforce male privilege. Though my focus is contemporary depictions of masculinity in film, my analysis of men springs from an examination of gender relations. Whether white male privilege faces, or will ever face, a legitimate threat to structural advantages remains to be seen; however, this thesis demonstrates how the perception of a need to sustain male privilege guides three groups of films while exhibiting the importance of considering gender relations, not just men, when confronting topics of masculinity.
Ofer Eliaz, PhD (Advisor)
122 p.
Film Studies
masculinity; gender relations; male privilege; labor role reversal; apocalypse comedy; apocalypse comedies; contemporary Hollywood; social gender relations; crisis of masculinity; patriarchy; patriarchal ideals; white privilege

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  • Carrier, M. B. (2015). Men and the Movies: Labor, Masculinity, and Shifting Gender Relations in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430322393

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carrier, Michael. Men and the Movies: Labor, Masculinity, and Shifting Gender Relations in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. 2015. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430322393.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carrier, Michael. "Men and the Movies: Labor, Masculinity, and Shifting Gender Relations in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430322393

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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