Always the larrikin

Ben Mendelsohn and young Aussie manhood in Australian cinema

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12341883
AutoresKristina Gottschall (0000-0002-1723-7747, ,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen28
Número6
Páginas862-875
Fecha de publicación2014-08-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaContinuum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10304312.2014.941332
OpenAlexW1987448644
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

Ben Mendelsohn is Australian cinema's quintessential working-class larrikin of his generation. This paper will consider the kind of young, masculine, roguish, destructive character that Mendelsohn has been playing since the 1980s. It will argue that by borrowing from his cinematic forefathers and adding his unique contemporary stamp to the mould, Mendelsohn incites audiences towards a particular brand of masculinity where being young, being male and being Australian is normalized and idealized. For good and for bad, Mendelsohn is a powerful text by which Australian society constructs, maintains, protects, challenges and teaches concepts of manhood

Art · Character (mathematics · Geometry · Literature · Masculinity · Movie theater · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Mathematics · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics