Kennesaw State University DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones Interdisciplinary Studies Department Winter 12-2015 The Legends of Bigfoot: Or How I Regained My Manhood Blaine McCarty Kennesaw State University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mast_etd Part of the American Film Studies Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, Cultural History Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation McCarty, Blaine, "The Legends of Bigfoot: Or How I Regained My Manhood" (2015). Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones. Paper 3. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Legends of Bigfoot: Or How I Regained My Manhood A Thesis Presented to The Academic Faculty By Daniel Blaine McCarty In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in American Studies Kennesaw State University December, 2015 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Preface ……………………………………………………………….... Pg.02 II. Introduction: Bigfoot and Meaning (or I Don’t Feel Manly).........……………….. pg.04 III. Literature Review:………………………………………….………... pg.13 a. Post-War Suburbanization and Post-Industrial Masculinity… pg.15 b. Men, Women, and Sexual Identity Theory………………….…. pg.23 c. Contemporary Cultural Studies………………….….…………. pg.29 IV. Section 1: Too Modern for Bigfoot? ………………………………… pg.36 V.