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One word that comes to mind, after surveying these images of men, and some images used by men, in a wide variety of genres and media, is ambivalence. Just as Superman hides the diffident figure of Clark Kent, so many other images of men are more complex than first meets the eye. Thus perhaps the most famous, or infamous, images of male depredation are found in pornography, yet I have argued that these images also reveal intense deprivation and infantile yearning.
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10 Conclusions
Philip French, Westerns (London: Seeker and Warburg, 1977) p. 52.
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Horrocks, R. (1995). Conclusions. In: Campling, J. (eds) Male Myths and Icons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389397_10
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