“Are You a Bad Boy?”: Variations of the American Adam in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2022-0007

Sofía Martinicorena

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Abstract

Abstract This paper mobilises R. W. B. Lewis’ myth of the American Adam, articulated in 1955, to examine David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet’s formulaic use of this masculinity archetype. Lewis’ ideal type of innocent masculinity is replicated by Blue Velvet’s protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who must navigate the stereotyped conventions of good and evil against the backdrop of the idealised US suburb. Beyond the generalised assessment of David Lynch as the quintessential eccentric, this article brings to the fore the ways in which his work can be analysed as formulaic, paying special attention to the interaction between masculinity, spatiality, and dominant national mythology.

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“你是坏男孩吗?”——大卫·林奇《蓝丝绒》中美国人亚当的变奏曲

摘要:本文以刘易斯1955年的《美国亚当神话》为例，考察了大卫·林奇1986年的电影《蓝丝绒》对这一男性原型的公式化运用。《蓝色丝绒》的主角杰弗里·博蒙特(凯尔·麦克拉克兰饰)再现了刘易斯理想中的天真男子气概，他必须在理想的美国郊区的背景下，在善恶的刻板印象中挣扎。除了将大卫·林奇概括为典型的怪人之外，本文还将他的作品作为公式化的分析方式，特别关注男性气质、空间性和主导国家神话之间的相互作用。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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0.30

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.