The Vietnam Era and its Archetypal Fatherby Stephen Harless (Undergraduate) There has been a recent era in the Western public sphere in which trust in government has plummeted. In in the U.S.A, this era includes certain defining events: the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Watergate scandal, and the second and third waves of feminism. The Vietnam era marks a new trend of change in American social imaginary which is evident in the animated children’s films from before and after the Vietnam War, specifically in their representation of the symbolic image of the Archetypal Father. Is The Father, who is a symbol of the individual domestic father and of societal authority, worthy of trust? Does he have our interests at heart? In short, how has the representation of the Archetypal Father evolved in animated children’s films regarding his character and the changes he must undergo to attain the Ideal Future. |
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