Skinheads are generally viewed, in contemporary Western culture, as symbols of violence, white racism and bigotry. In fact, the term ‘skinhead’ is taken by most academics and mainstream media ...consumers virtually to be synonymous with the term ‘Nazi’, and it has become almost automatic to associate images of young, white males sporting shaven heads with viciousness and racial intolerance. The media commonly utilise and exploit this iconic image in everything from television programmes and commercials to magazine ads and movies, reinforcing and strengthening its evocative power. The skinhead has thus become one of our culture’s most recognisable images of contemporary
At times, the film turns into a morality play, but it has the integrity to confront the issues head on, offering Edward Norton's most powerful performance to date. The story begins with Danny Vinyard ...(Edward Furlong) turning in a book report in his high-school class on Hitler's "Mein Kampf." An active Nazi skinhead, Danny idolizes his brother Derek (Edward Norton), who is in prison for committing a brutal murder. The school principal (Avery Brooks) refuses to give up on Danny, and orders him to do a paper on his brother's story. In flashback, we see Derek's rise to leadership in a local racist youth group. Meanwhile, in the present, Derek is released from prison and has noticeably changed. Not only has his hair grown back, but he seems ashamed of his former cohorts.
At times, the film turns into a morality play, but it has the integrity to confront the issues head on, offering Edward Norton's most powerful performance to date. The story begins with Danny Vinyard ...(Edward Furlong) turning in a book report in his high-school class on Hitler's "Mein Kampf." An active Nazi skinhead, Danny idolizes his brother Derek (Edward Norton), who is in prison for committing a brutal murder. The school principal (Avery Brooks) refuses to give up on Danny, and orders him to do a paper on his brother's story. In flashback, we see Derek's rise to leadership in a local racist youth group. Meanwhile, in the present, Derek is released from prison and has noticeably changed. Not only has his hair grown back, but he seems ashamed of his former cohorts.
Rhetorical Masculinity Price, Stuart
The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media,
10/2011
Book Chapter
This chapter contains sections titled:
Approaches to Masculinity: Appearance and Utterance
‘The Code is Simple’
From Conversation to Rhetoric
Allocution: Leaders and Led
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