Covid-19 · Disease and Epidemics · Men & Masculinity · Military and Paramilitary · Pandemic · SF & Fantasy
As a single-minded seismologist posted in Antarctica who predicts the disastrous DC quake, Yoshizumi embodies the willful blindness and debasement of humans in the Cold War era: like those who[…]
Crime · LGBT & Queer · Men & Masculinity · Sex & Relationships
“I don’t make a film because I’m against something. For that matter, I don’t make a film because I’m for something — don’t make propaganda. If anything, all the films[…]
Biopic · Business · Men & Masculinity · Sports
If Ferrari is arguably Mann’s most flawed protagonist, he is also one of his most tragic – fully sold to a system that requires him to develop an almost inhuman[…]
Biopic · Drama · Men & Masculinity · Military and Paramilitary
Words, and the internal fictions they represented, would never be enough to join Mishima’s corporeal self to the abstract notion of beauty except in a dreamlike capacity, which would not[…]
Drama · LGBT & Queer · Men & Masculinity · Westerns
Though the possible motivations behind Ford’s deep admiration for James have been a topic of debate since the film’s release, little attention, unfortunately, has been paid to the shared relationship[…]
Franchises & Series · Horror · Men & Masculinity
We see how Jigsaw can fail, again and again, to help anyone and still blame it on them. We see how people can live through how little his traps teach[…]
Directors · Gender · Hollywood · Horror · Men & Masculinity
If the sum of Spielberg’s work is about how men live in the world, Jaws is his most particular point on the subject, a film centered with almost fantastical totality[…]
Franchises & Series · Gender · Men & Masculinity · SF & Fantasy
Further analysis of Tony Stark indicates the character exemplifies more than toxic masculinity. Stark’s various actions and roles throughout his nine-film arc can be interpreted as exemplifying gender nonconformity too,[…]
