%0 Journal Article
%T Self-fashioning, Freedom, and the Problem of His-story: the return of noir
%A Scott Loren
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2008
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.1842
%X With a mix of two patently American film genres - film noir and the western - David Cronenberg¡¯s critically acclaimed A History of Violence (2005) sets up a group of oppositions through the story of a man who leaves a life of crime and violence behind to assume a new identity, start a family, and settle down in the quiet town of Millbrook, Indiana. The oppositions between gangster thug, super-killer and good citizen, family-man are paralleled in another opposition particularly typical to the ...
%K history
%K Symbolic
%K Subjectivity
%K Self-fashioning
%K Masculinity
%K Jouissance
%K Freedom
%K Ahistoricism
%K Film Noir
%K Violence
%U http://ejas.revues.org/1842