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The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday
- Author(s):
- Debra Ann Castillo (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, MS Screen Arts and Culture, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Comparative literature, Indian literature, Literature, Modern
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- 21st Century Literature, collective politics, comparative literature, contemporary literature, film, Film studies, Modern literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6CS40
- Abstract:
- In this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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