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The male body as vacillation : disability, gender, and discourse in The Men

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Date
2019
Author
Girelli, Elisabetta
Keywords
Body
Disability
Judith Butler
Marlon Brando
Masculinity
Representations
Sexuality
PN1993 Motion Pictures
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Abstract
This article considers the representation of gendered disability in The Men (Fred Zinnemann, 1950), Marlon Brando’s first film. A groundbreaking yet deeply ambiguous text, the film explores notions of normative and non-normative physicality through the lens of masculinity, sexuality, and their implications for human status. In the light of key works by disability scholars, and of Judith Butler’s discussion of the cultural construction of the body, this article examines the multiple and subversive meanings made available by the film, and the extent to which The Men allows for a different bodily identity based on dissent.
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Girelli , E 2019 , ' The male body as vacillation : disability, gender, and discourse in The Men ' , Screen Bodies , vol. 3 , no. 1 , pp. 87-97 . https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2018.030106
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Screen Bodies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2018.030106
ISSN
2374-7552
Type
Journal article
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© 2019 Publisher / the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2018.030106
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21385

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