Panel proposal for NEMLA 2003:
Masculinities in Film: Masques of Blood and Violence
Whether it's Rocky yelling, "Cut me!" or William Wallace yelling,
"Freedom!" as he's disemboweled at the end of Braveheart, one constant
running throughout much mainstream Hollywood cinema are representations of
"heroic" masculinity that involve remarkable sadomasochistic undercurrents.
Whether such representations are expressed as violence towards self or
other, since the demise of the production code in the 1960s, the rivers of
blood have only run deeper. This panel invites papers and critical
approaches that consider the various public, mythic, and filmic impulses
that continue to drive this phenomenon across a host of postmodern film
genres.
Submitted by:
Anthony Hughes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Director, Film Studies Program
Hilbert College, Hamburg, NY
hughes@hilbert.edu
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