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- Title
"They Look at Me and See Something Else": The Reconstruction of the "Self‐Made" White Male Identity in The Deer Hunter and Coming Home.
- Authors
Boyle, Sean
- Abstract
The article focuses on the reconstruction of white male identity within the films "The Deer Hunter" and "Coming Home." The author discusses the notions of masculinity and male anxiety, explores the impact of the Vietnam War on American men, and analyses the critical perspective of gender within film.
- Subjects
DEER Hunter, The (Film); COMING Home (Film); MASCULINITY in motion pictures; GENDER in motion pictures; MASCULINE identity; MASCULINITY &; society; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 -- Social aspects
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2020, Vol 53, Issue 4, p886
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.12945