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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

13. The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film

Author : K. Brenna Wardell

Published in: Age of the Geek

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Focusing on the fusion of the geek figure and the rake—the libertine male—in select science fiction and comedy films by Generation X filmmakers, Wardell argues that this mixing rewrites both figures and speaks to the apparently fluid, yet relatively rigid, nature of contemporary masculinity. Using a theoretical approach drawn from gender and sexuality studies and genre studies, the chapter focuses on the comedy Superbad (Mottola, 2007), the comedy/science fiction hybrid Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright, 2010), and the science fiction films Star Trek (Abrams, 2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (Abrams, 2013) to explore the implications of this fusion, tracing key similarities between the geek and rake that make this fusion less unexpected than it would initially appear.

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Metadata
Title
The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film
Author
K. Brenna Wardell
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Age of the Geek

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65743-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65744-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65744-8_13