Nation, nostalgia and masculinity: Clinton /Spielberg/Hanks

摘要: This dissertation focuses on masculinity in discourses of nostalgia and nation popular films texts the late 20th century's millennial period—the "Bill Clinton years," from 1992-2001. As 1990s progressed, crises anxieties intersected with an increasing fixation nostalgic histories World War II. The representative masculine figures proffered Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks roles had critical relationships to cultural traumas surrounding race, reproduction sexuality. Nostalgic narratives emerged as way fortify American nation-state resolve its social problems. WWII trend, through specter tributes a dying generation, used images create imaginary landscapes that centered much contemporary political perspective Boomer generation it did prior one. conceit Clinton's is figural link between male bodies represented such Amistad, Saving Private Ryan Green Mile. Additional chapters focus Hanks' star persona, notion boyhood, nexus pop imagery representations nostalgia.