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This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction: Wounding and Healing: The Search for Self in American Film and Culture
Section 1: The Tragic Frame: Suffering, Scapegoating, Mortification, Masculine (White) Fragility, and the Lack/Loss of the Feeling Function
Section 1: Preface
Chapter 1: There Will Be Blood: "Give Me the Blood"
Chapter 2: Million Dollar Baby: "Hits Too Close to the Bone"
Chapter 3: Moonlight: "Who Is You, Man?"
Section 2: The Comic Frame: Suffering, Scapegoating, Mortification, and the Search for the Feminine
Section 2: Preface
Chapter 4: Guardians of the Galaxy: "We Are Groot"
Chapter 5: Iron Man:"I Am Iron Man"
Chapter 6: The Darjeeling Limited: "We Haven't Located Us Yet"
Section 3: The Mystic Frame: Reflexivity, Transcendence, Restoration of the Feminine and the Flowering of Compassion
Section 3: Preface
Chapter 7: Ad Astra: "We're All We've Got"
Chapter 8: Big Fish: "To Catch an Uncatchable Fish"
Chapter 9: The Fountain: "Dying as an Act of Creation"
Conclusion: Final Thoughts: "Thou Art That"
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About the Authors
About the author
By Susan Mackey-Kallis and Brian Johnston
Summary
This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.
