Tag: archetypes

• Backwards and in High Heels

  

  In the forty-second episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss the on-screen dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. In this episode, the co-hosts analyze the star personas of the classic duo for how they represent issues regarding gender and power dynamics. They interrogate the now famous saying that Rogers […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 12, 2018

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  archetypes, backwards and in high heels, Classic Hollywood, dance, Fred Astaire, gender dyanmics, Ginger Rogers, grace, iconography, power dynamics, romance, style

• Valhalla Rising and the Demythologization of Male Violence

  In a reworking of some analysis from his Master’s thesis, Christopher J. Olson presents his analysis of Nicholas Winding Refn’s existential film Valhalla Rising. In his analysis, Chris argues that Refn portrays a violent version of masculinity in order to critique globalized popular culture’s tendency to portray men in such rigid and limited ways. Read […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 28, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  archetypes, cinema, hyperviolent, Mads Mikkelson, masculine archetypes, Nicholas Winding Refn, Valhalla Rising, violence, violent masculinity, violent men