The narcissistic masculinity of Travis Bickle : American "Reality" in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver

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dc.contributor.advisorHees, Edwin
dc.contributor.authorPauw, Waldemaren_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of English.
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-18T09:11:57Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:55:01Z
dc.date.available2008-11-18T09:11:57Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:55:01Z
dc.date.issued2006-12en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (English))—University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I examine the way in which Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver can be read as a critical investigation of post-World War II American masculinity. Drawing on Susan Faludi’s arguments regarding the post-World War II American ‘masculinity crisis’, I highlight specifically how Taxi Driver addresses American masculinity in the context of ideals of heroism, of the myth of the Wild West, of the Vietnam era, and of the increasingly influential role that the popular media play in shaping conceptions of masculinity. In the process I indicate that Taxi Driver exposes, and critiques, an association in modern American society between masculinity and what analysts have termed the ‘myth of regeneration through violence’.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2674
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectMasculinity in motion picturesen
dc.subjectMasculinity -- United Statesen
dc.subjectTaxi driver (Motion picture : 1976)en
dc.subjectViolence in motion picturesen
dc.subjectDissertations -- English literatureen
dc.subjectTheses -- English literatureen
dc.titleThe narcissistic masculinity of Travis Bickle : American "Reality" in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driveren
dc.typeThesisen
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