Wounded Masculinity and the Search for Father Self in American Film

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Wounded Masculinity and the Search for Father Self in American Film

Author	: Susan Mackey-Kallis
File Size	: 42,8 Mb
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 15 December 2023
ISBN	: 9781793626080
Pages	: 263 pages

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Wounded Masculinity and the Search for Father Self in American Film by Susan Mackey-Kallis Book PDF Summary

This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.

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