[Coursework Essay 2019]: Masculinity in Contemporary French Action Cinema
The following is a slightly edited version of one of my pieces of written coursework from my undergraduate university studies. I have posted it here with a slightly altered title alongside my later works for the purpose of showing the development of my academic research and writing skills. I wrote and submitted the original version of this essay for university coursework in 2019. Please note: this essay uses the term “queer” in the academic sense (as in Queer Theory) and uses the LGBTQ+ acronym when refering to queer characters not to conflate differing LGBTQ+ identities but to avoid any potential erasure of those identities. Content Warning: this essay features occasional references to homophobia, transphobia (including homophobic and transphobic slurs) and sexism. Introduction: Legitimising the Corpus A prerequisite to discussing a popular national cinema is the task of proving one’s chosen corpus as such. The specificities of the corpus under discussion (genre, nationality, d...