Audiencing Violence: Watching Homeless Men Watch Die Hard

Fiske, John R.; Dawson, Robert O.

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“…However, in media reception studies, the panorama is not as positive. Theorists like Fiske and Hartley (1978), Morley (1986), and Fiske and Dawson (1996) remain uncontested to date. In cultural and feminist studies, the contributions dedicated to (Northern) Irish masculinities are broader, but the number of theorists remains limited.…”

Section: Masculinity the Troubles And The Peace Agreementmentioning

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“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19)

Álvarez¹

2022

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Although widely applauded for its female centrality, Derry Girls (2018-19) also problematises the displacement of masculine subjectivities in a period when the peace process and the effects of globalisation permeated the renegotiation of the discursive notions of masculinity in Northern Ireland. Intergenerational relations are key to understanding this displacement of male characters like Granda Joe (the hard man), Da Gerry (the new man), or James. With an emphasis on the carnivalesque, liminality, space, and emasculation, this article will investigate the extent to which male characters, who are caught amidst the rapid cultural changes caused by the spatial and cultural negotiations of the ceasefire, represent the collapsing structural dimensions of the social constitution of gender in pre-ceasefire Northern Ireland.

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Section: Masculinity the Troubles And The Peace Agreementmentioning

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“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19)

Álvarez¹

2022

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Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence

Pelias

2007

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This article explores the troublesome ways in which violence and pleasure become conflated for both hypermasculine and effeminate men. Using images from contemporary culture and incidents from the author's life, the article ponders how men might negotiate this unfortunate bind. I n the film, Jarhead, a group of Marines gang up on another member of their platoon. Held down, the targeted man is threatened with a branding, with burning into his skin the insignia of the Marines. We see his resistance, his fear, before learning this was just a joke. Later on in the film, another Marine who had gained the respect of the unit but is being discharged because of a previous criminal record, is branded, marked in the desire to be what a Marine often is, scarred into manhood.When Arnold Schwarzenegger calls his political opponents "girly men," he mistakenly believes that the phrase, taken from the Saturday Night Live parody of his hypermasculinity, is just a comic insult, without implications. But he is with each utterance of the phrase saying that people, men and women, who act like women are of questionable value, a step below, not to be taken seriously, dismissible. Schwarzenegger's use of the phrase is a strategy of control, of domination, an ongoing bid for power over others. It is taking pleasure in maintaining the privilege of masculinity. It requires forced submission.I dwell in the space between jarheads and girly men, between hypermasculinity and femininity, negotiating violence, its repugnancy, and its pleasures. I write to uncover how I have become trapped within a cultural logic that pulls me into a sadistic desire to be or identify with a person in power. Knowing that I have been both a jarhead and a girly man, I write so that I might maneuver without causing harm, without taking pleasure in violence. I write, offering a series of life examples and disclosing perhaps more than I should, to show how being a girly man can be a resistant strategy.

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Audiencing Violence: Watching Homeless Men Watch Die Hard

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“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19)

“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19)

Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence

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