期刊名称：Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
印刷版ISSN：1324-4558
电子版ISSN：1833-3419
出版年度：2001
卷号：7
页码：26
出版社：University of Western Australia
摘要：The Threshold Moment’ is a critical interrogation of the performance of masculinities in Australian road-genre cinema. The article scrutinises mythical articulations of national identity to assess the cultural and political significance of masculine conduct and iconography as it is represented in popular narrative film. Viewing the Mad Max trilogy and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, as well as The Big Steal, The FJ Holden, Backroads, Stone, The Crossing, Metal Skin, Long Weekend and Malcolm, the article explores notions of violence, freedom, family and home. Vehicular masculinities are diagnosed as fantasies in opposition to domesticity, love and success, and this article identifies the mechanisms through which the films command approval for the irresponsibility, loneliness and loss of its heroes. The Australian landscape – its roads, its places, and the spaces in between – serves as a metaphor and an arena for the manufacture of mythical masculinity; a venue from which women are eliminated and difference is quarantined.
