VCC304H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kunio Yanagita, Robert Zemeckis, Masculinity
15 Feb 2017
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Lecture four: hollywood films and the binaries of race and class. Airline owner tom mullen (mel gibson) has amassed a great deal of wealth. When a group of criminals want some of his money, they kidnap his son for a million ransom. Encouraged by his wife (rene russo) and an fbi agent (delroy lindo), tom prepares to pay the money, but the ransom drop goes awry. Jerry collects the ransom from her wealthy father (harve presnell) to pay the kidnappers. The scheme collapses when the kidnappers shoot a state trooper, which leads to the police work of the very pregnant marge gunderson (frances mcdormand) to investigate the crime. The trope of working-class or (cid:862)eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)(cid:863) white kid(cid:374)appers, kidnapped white middle- Class women and/or children and a lone white, heterosexual, middle-class male hero. Eastwood, tom cruise, bru(cid:272)e willis, a(cid:374)d (cid:448)arious others (cid:449)ho (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ue the traditio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)kri(cid:374), (cid:862) a(cid:272)ial displa(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts,(cid:863) (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1008), p. (cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:895).
