Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man

This thesis investigates how hegemonic white masculinity adopts a new mode of material accumulation by entering into an ambivalent existence as a historical agent and metahistory at the same time and continues to function as a performative identity that offers a point of identification for the working class white man suggesting that bourgeois identity is obtainable through the performance of bourgeois ethics. The thesis postulates that the phenomenal transitions brought on by industrialization and deindustrialization of 50's through 90's coincide with the representational changes of white masculinity from paradigmatic cowboy incarnations to the postmodern action heroes, specifically as embodied by Bruce Willis. The thesis also examines how postmodern heroes' "intero-alterity" is further problematized by antiheroes in Tim Burton's films.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Murphree, Hyon Joo Yoo

Contributors dc:contributor

• Negra, Diane
• Hoerschelmann, Olaf
• Blaine, Diana Y.

• Men in motion pictures.
• Men, White.
• Masculinity in popular culture.
• hegemonic white masculinity
• material accumulation
• working class
• deindustrialization
• industrialization

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Murphree, Hyon Joo Yoo
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47365574
untcat: b2304203
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