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Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 48, Number 4, Summer 2009
- pp. 22-43
- 10.1353/cj.0.0137
- Article
- Additional Information
In the double-protagonist film, a genre that has emerged in the past two decades, two male protagonists, each played by a film star, vie for narrative dominance. American manhood is depicted as fundamentally split, a split that can be understood as conflict between a narcissistic and a masochistic mode of masculine identity.