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Grief, Madness, and Crises of Masculinity in Mind-Game Films
About this book
This book analyzes a cycle of early twenty-first-century mind-game films and TV series in which male protagonists retreat into fantasies, dreams, or hallucinations as a means of coping with grief and guilt following the death of a loved one. Discussing films like Memento, Inception, and Shutter Island alongside the TV series Mr. Robot, among others, Rosalind Sibielski highlights how the construction of alternate realities allows the protagonists to work through bereavement and past trauma. Sibielski also argues that, as part of this process, the protagonists not only find themselves questioning their memories and what they believe to be true about their identities, but they are also forced to reevaluate who they are as men and the way that they define their manhood. Finally, Grief, Madness, and Crises of Masculinity in Mind-Game Films examines these stories of intersecting crises of reality and crises of masculinity within the context of millennial culture wars in the US over the way that manhood is, can be, or should be enacted.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Mad with Grief: Trauma, Loss, and the Fracturing of Reality in Mind-Game Films
- 2 Crisis of Reality as Crisis of the Patriarch: Grief, Guilt, and the Failures of Husbands and Fathers in Memento, Inception, and Shutter Island
- 3 The Stuff of (Urban) Legend: Making Sense of Loss and What It Means to Be a Man in Urbania
- 4 Lost Mothers, Abusive Fathers, and Damaged Sons: Alternate Realities and Oedipal Crises in Bandersnatch and Mr. Robot
- 5 Spectacles of Grief and Madness: The Visual Representation and Fetishization of Mental Health Crises in Mind-Game Media Narratives
- References
- Index
- About the Author