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Freaks in the Reagan Era: James Baldwin, the New Pop Cinema, and the American Ideal of Manhood
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2015-06, Vol.48 (3), p.464-486
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article draws on James Baldwin's 1985 essay, "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" to consider how the Reagan-era ideal of masculinity was delineated and contested in popular culture. In "Freaks," Baldwin described and critiqued a nation also desperately struggling to remain hypermasculine and heteronormative. Those who crossed borders, those who occupied that liminal space "in between," incited panic precisely because they exposed the lie that propped up Reagan's black and white fantasy. However, the inconvenient truth, Baldwin concludes, is that "we are all androgynous...each of us helplessly and forever, contains the other--male in female, female in male, white in black, black in white...We are part of each other" ("Freaks" 828).