Tag: Film Masters’
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John Woo and the Hyper-Masculine: How the action auteur’s films reflect different visions of masculinity in Hollywood and Hong Kong.
This is a re-edited essay I wrote as part of my UCL Film Studies Masters’. The action film has always proven a key site in articulating contemporary understandings of masculinity for, as Mark Gallagher writes, ‘The contemporary action film…respond[s] to cultural crises about masculinity and male social roles’ (Gallagher,2006:45). John Woo’s unique status as an… Read more