La ruptura del modelo de masculinidad en el Hollywood clásico: los personajes de Tennessee Williams y de William Inge = The breakdown of the model of masculinity in the classic Hollywood: the characters of Tennessee Williams and William Inge
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Construction of characters has a relevant role
in the literary work of the American playwrights
Tennessee Williams and William Inge.
This aspect has a decisive presence in the
film industry because the majority of their
texts were adapted to big screen in the fifties
and sixties; a decisive stage in Hollywood. Its
characters are marked by a resounding physical
aspect and a deep psychological complexity,
and this combination gain relevance in
the male, who participated in the breakdown
with the model of hegemonic masculinity of
classic American cinema. With the objectives
of put in value the film work of both writers, to
reflect on the impact of the characters in the
film and to make an approach to the representation
of masculinity in its main movies,
this paper tries to reflect how its main characters
represented an unprecedented model,
more sensitive and become sexualised. In this
sense, the male characters that are analyzed
are the main of A Streetcar Named Desire
(1951), Picnic (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Splendor in the Grass (1961). From
these considerations, this work aims to reflect
on how male characters of the film adaptations
of Tennessee Williams and William Inge
influenced the new model of masculinity that
settled in Hollywood from the fifties