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SUMMARY:Visions of Vengeance: Tracking the Father through New Hollywood Ci
 nema - Harrison Whitaker\, Film &amp\; Screen Department
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:While studies of Hollywood in the 1970s — commonly known as 
 "New Hollywood" — have long identified the vigilante as a key type in th
 e era’s films\, the exact nature of the figure’s extralegal violence h
 as gone unexamined. Films often cited as emblematic of New Hollywood cinem
 a’s fixation on men who enact their own form of justice — Joe (1970)\,
  Death Wish (1974)\, and Hardcore (1979) among them — center not just an
 ticrime avengers but on avenging dads in particular. The vengeful dad is t
 hus a key type for understanding some of the larger ideological moves of t
 he New Hollywood era. Often conflated with the more general vigilante figu
 re\, he represents a specific flavor of paternalistic backlash against evo
 lving social norms and perceived social decay\; his “justice” is enact
 ed in reaction to the violation of their daughters’ sexuality\, leading 
 to violent confrontations which often play out across class lines. Critica
 lly\, his inability to balance the demands of work with the stresses of a 
 collapsing domestic sphere is dependent on the inadequacies of his spouse\
 , depictions of whom feature misogynistic tropes which can be traced back 
 to the literature of the burgeoning “men’s liberation” movement cont
 emporaneous with New Hollywood. This article demonstrates how the vengeful
  dads of New Hollywood not only offer a critical reformulation of how that
  era’s filmmaking is understood but also presage seemingly unrelated cin
 ematic depictions of the father in the 1980s and beyond.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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