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- Title
"Too Close for Comfort": American Beauty and the Incest Motif.
- Authors
Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe
- Abstract
Through a reading of the film "American Beauty," this article explains how the structure of father-daughter incest, working through displacement, has provided a narrative that links a series of recent cultural developments: the sexualization of ever-younger girls, cinema's erasure of mothers and of career women as sympathetic figures, and efforts to remasculinize the middle-aged white male.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN Beauty (Film); PSYCHOANALYSIS &; motion pictures; FATHER-daughter relationship; INCEST in motion pictures; MOTHERS in motion pictures; MASCULINITY in motion pictures; SOCIAL psychology; FEMINIST film criticism; FILM criticism; FATHER-daughter relationship in motion pictures
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2004, Vol 44, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2004.0048