The Incredible Shrinking Man Analysis

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Again domesticity becomes an oppressive prison for the white collar protagonist Scott Carey in the Jack Arnold directed film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Steven Cohen in his book Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (1997) expressed his fear of men ‘going soft’ and it was linked to cultural fantasises of remasculinization which was evident in sequence of film epics that displayed manliness of Moses and Rameses (Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner) in Ten Commandments and made spectacles of broad chests of William Holden and Rock Hudson, the biggest box office draws of the 1950s.

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