Intro
Well, I was just going to keep this multi-part essay confined to the other thread I was posting it in here, but then it started to really grow and take on a life of its own, so I figured it warranted a thread of its own in the General Discussion board, where more people will (hopefully) read and respond to it. You see, when it comes to movie genres, there is perhaps no more of a "boy's club" than the Action movie, which tends to be viewed as quintessentially male as, say, Romantic Comedies are seen as feminine, with the stereotypical cultural image of the genre including lots of massive, bulging biceps, super-macho leading men, and humongous automatic weapons that might as well be metallic extensions of those men's phalluses.
However, while there IS a grain of truth to this perception, the overall relationship between Action movies and gender is actually far more complicated than that, not just when it comes to the depictions of men inside the genre (as well as in the movies adjacent to it), but for the women as well, so I would like to use this series to take a look at the various aspects of this fascinating subject, whether they be negative (which is a lot of them, to be honest), positive, or somewhere in-between. So... get ready, ladies and gentlemen! Oh, and spoiler alerts are in effect for each and every movie discussed here, so consider yourselves warned, yo.
Index:
An Uneven Foundation
Embrace Of Masculinity
Female Fragility
Well, I was just going to keep this multi-part essay confined to the other thread I was posting it in here, but then it started to really grow and take on a life of its own, so I figured it warranted a thread of its own in the General Discussion board, where more people will (hopefully) read and respond to it. You see, when it comes to movie genres, there is perhaps no more of a "boy's club" than the Action movie, which tends to be viewed as quintessentially male as, say, Romantic Comedies are seen as feminine, with the stereotypical cultural image of the genre including lots of massive, bulging biceps, super-macho leading men, and humongous automatic weapons that might as well be metallic extensions of those men's phalluses.
However, while there IS a grain of truth to this perception, the overall relationship between Action movies and gender is actually far more complicated than that, not just when it comes to the depictions of men inside the genre (as well as in the movies adjacent to it), but for the women as well, so I would like to use this series to take a look at the various aspects of this fascinating subject, whether they be negative (which is a lot of them, to be honest), positive, or somewhere in-between. So... get ready, ladies and gentlemen! Oh, and spoiler alerts are in effect for each and every movie discussed here, so consider yourselves warned, yo.
Index:
An Uneven Foundation
Embrace Of Masculinity
Female Fragility
Last edited by StuSmallz; 10-02-21 at 04:20 AM.