It's All Coming Back to You: 1980s Retro Film Culture and the Masculinity of Cult
Description:
The 1980s is a formative decade in American history. America sought to reestablish itself as a global power and to reassert the dominant ideology of white, patriarchal capitalism. Likewise, media producers in the 1980s sought to reassert the dominance of the white, male, muscled body in filmic representations. The identity politics of the 1980s and the depictions of the white, muscled body once prominent in the 1980s have been the site of conservative nostalgia for a young, male-dominated, cult…
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Date:
August 2017
Creator:
Collins, Ryan William
Partner:
UNT Libraries