Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream

Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream

The postmodernist topos of identity as unfixed, malleable, & constructed is exemplified by three 1999 films: Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, & The Talented Mr. Ripley. This ostensibly postmodern fixation on the transformability of identity -- whether gendered or socioeconomic -- e...

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Veröffentlicht in:Perspectives on political science 2002-01, Vol.31 (2), p.71-76
1. Verfasser: Cantor, Paul A.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Identity
Mass Media Images
Postmodernism
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Zusammenfassung:The postmodernist topos of identity as unfixed, malleable, & constructed is exemplified by three 1999 films: Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, & The Talented Mr. Ripley. This ostensibly postmodern fixation on the transformability of identity -- whether gendered or socioeconomic -- evokes the fundamental tenets of the American Dream, & is anticipated by the films & film career of W. C. Fields. Fields & several of his movies are analyzed in terms of his deliberate self-reinvention both onscreen & off & his movies' frequent, satirical deflation of the American Dream & of Hollywood illusion. K. Coddon
ISSN:1045-7097
1930-5478
DOI:10.1080/10457090209604074