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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Under siege: Men, women and the crises of gender, identity and society in the action/adventure film genre Abstract: Although a topic of research for decades, issues of violent media products have only recently been approached from a qualitative perspective and with a focus on audience behavior. Thanks in large part to British cultural studies, the examination of the consumers of violent entertainment and their positioning of such entertainment in their lives is a new and useful approach to the issue. The issue, however, has rarely been studied from a gendered perspective, especially focusing on masculinity and society's shifting concepts of masculinity. This study presents such a methodological approach. Looking at the action/adventure film genre, the study explores the testimonies of male and female active viewers to understand the process of how they negotiate their identities with the genre's concern over gender. |
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