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Volume 5, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2055-5695
  • E-ISSN: 2055-5709

Abstract

This article proposes a comparison between Francis Lee’s (UK, 2017) and Peter Sheridan’s (Ireland, 2000) to examine the role that masculinities and sexual desire play in the construction, (re)configuration and (re)affirmation of nation-ness. These films depict bodies and their sensations as being able to break down and re-shape a strict and embodied notion of nationhood strongly tied by patriarchal norms. However, they also rely on rigid representations of masculinities and do not attempt to dissolve nation-ness as a corporeal entity, but to re-shape it and re-install it as a valid form of existence. Notions by Elaine Scarry’s and Jasbir Puar’s provide the theoretical approach to observe possible changes and continuities regarding the domestication of male bodies in twenty-first-century Irish and British cinema.

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