University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Open Access Master's Theses 2019 WHEN THE ALTERNATIVE BECOMES HEGEMONIC: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Patrick Crowe University of Rhode Island,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses Recommended Citation Crowe, Patrick, "WHEN THE ALTERNATIVE BECOMES HEGEMONIC: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS" (2019). Open Access Master's Theses. Paper 1473. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/1473 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WHEN THE ALTERNATIVE BECOMES HEGEMONIC: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS BY PATRICK CROWE A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN KINESIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2019 MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS OF PATRICK CROWE APPROVED: Thesis Committee: Major Professor Kyle Kusz Scott Kushner Annemarie Vaccaro Nasser H. Zawia DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2019 Abstract Wes Anderson has been designated by many as one of the first ‘Indiewood’ directors. While his films possess a quirky, atypical, and oddball visual and aesthetic style, at least one of his films, The Royal Tenenbaums, offers performances of gender and race—particularly of white masculinity—that reinforce a number of gender and racial stereotypes (Beynon, 2002; Buchbinder, 2013; Connell, 1995; Kimmel, 1996; Moss, 2011). In this thesis, I conduct a critical textual analysis on The Royal Tenenbaums to illuminate the retrogressive gender and racial ideas that Anderson uses to constitute various performances or models of white masculinity.