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  1. Abstract. One of the most contested and risible issues surrounding Brokeback Mountain was its generic status as a Western. In part, this was because the Western has close ties with American history and national mythology as well as links with certain forms of normative and hegemonic masculinity, often idealised as stoic, conservative and, most ...

  2. 3 Sep 2008 · While no character in Brokeback Mountain can be considered an Objectivist and the film is philosophically muddied and inconsistent, Brokeback Mountain contains and engenders more Objectivist thought than the vast majority of analysts have realized.

  3. Male homosexuality has been historically separated from the notion of traditional hegemonic masculinity yet the film Brokeback Mountain (2005) casts its male love story in a fiercely masculine light.

  4. Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed film, The Ice Storm (1997), based on Rick Moody’s 1994 novel of the same name, is an existential masterpiece, depicting the crossroads at which humanity stands through a story about a New England family in Nixon’s America. In light of the successes of science and... xml.

  5. In this chapter I will explore the melodramatic form and affects of Brokeback Mountain as a queer melodrama that promotes negative feelings and explain why feeling bad is important for queers and how melodrama is the mode through which Brokeback Mountain achieves this.

  6. 22 Feb 2023 · Returning to Brokeback Mountain and its mountainous aesthetics, my contribution develops a three-part argument that reengages the cinematic landscape projected in Ang Lee’s ‘love story’ – a landscape that echoes, as I show, a national visual culture mapped and remapped by paradigmatic moments in art, photography, and film.

  7. Annie Proulx's “two-faced landscape” constitutes the geography of Brokeback Mountain on both the physical and emotional levels of Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar's relationship. The bifurcated narrative shifts between the hardscrabble towns of the northern plains and the romanticized, elusive Brokeback Mountain.