Joseph Harry

The 1994 film Natural Born Killers is analyzed from a postmodern literary and aesthetic-ethical interpretive stance to consider the film's own ethos pertaining to violence as both personal, family-dysfunctional issue and as cultural-media event".

An Aesthetic-ethical Deconstruction of Violence in (and Of) the Mass Media

Natural Born Killers

Describes how many gay men were loners, alienated from their childhood and adolescent peers, and averse to male gender culture during that period of their lives. Out of that early differentness they devised varying solutions to their problems of alienation, some of which proved highly useful during adulthood for educational and occupational advancement ... Through being alienated from conventional male culture they were freed to devise or invent modified gender roles which contain varying mixtures of masculine and feminine culture and which were closer to their individual needs ... There are many and large differences between gay and non-gay men and these difference are seen largely in the area of culture rather than psychology.--From Pref.

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