Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: In mainstream literature, film, and theatre, disability often serves as a metonym for emasculation.1 On the one hand, this association signals a male character's loss of power and masculinity.And on the other hand, in what Fred Pfiel calls "sensitive guy" films, a macho man's empathetic encounter with disabled characters or his own experience of temporary disability transforms the hero into a more benevolent patriarch.Kenneth MacKinnon makes a similar point about action genre film, in which spectators take pleasure in "the suffering of the wounded or broken body of the male hero with whom the spectator is invited to identify, but Carrie Sandahl is an Assistant Professor and Director
Author: Carrie Sandahl
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2098347928