Grief, Madness, and Crises of Masculinity in Mind-Game Films

This book analyzes mind-game films and TV series featuring male protagonists who retreat into imagined realities to cope with trauma and grief. It examines their stories of intersecting crises of reality and crises of masculinity within the context of U.S. culture wars over the way that manhood should be enacted.

List of contents

Chapter 1
Mad With Grief: Trauma, Loss, and the Fracturing of Reality in Mind-Game Films
Chapter 2
Crisis of Reality as Crisis of the Patriarch: Grief, Guilt, and the Failures of Husbands and Fathers in Memento, Inception, and Shutter Island
Chapter 3
The Stuff of (Urban) Legend: Making Sense of Loss and What It Means to Be a Man in Urbania
Chapter 4
Lost Mothers, Abusive Fathers, and Damaged Sons: Alternate Realities and Oedipal Crises in Bandersnatch and Mr. Robot
Chapter 5
Spectacles of Grief and Madness: The Visual Representation and Fetishization of Mental Health Crises in Mind-Game Media Narratives

About the author

Rosalind Sibielski is assistant professor of English and film studies at Rhode Island College

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Sibielski
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666936445
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-644-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender Studies: Men, Gender studies: men & boys