Douglas Pye, "The Collapse of Fantasy: Masculinity in the Westerns of Anthony Mann"in The Book of Westerns, ed. Cameron and Pye.
"Like Hitchcock...Mann also analyses and problematises assumptions about masculinity which are inherent in popular genres, developing, as he does so, a substantial critique of central aspects of the traditional Western" (168).
"Like Hitchcock...Mann also analyses and problematises assumptions about masculinity which are inherent in popular genres, developing, as he does so, a substantial critique of central aspects of the traditional Western" (168).
“The sense we get of Mann's protagonists is of men
trapped within and struggling to escape a narrow, stifling, traditional
definition of masculinity” (172).
In Mann’s films the “traditional life of male independence is
characterized as savage, neurotic, regressive…the ideal man, the fantasy figure
of supreme completeness is transformed into a nightmare of psychological
trauma, violence, and hysteria” (Pye 170).
No comments:
Post a Comment