The Modern Return of a Nineteenth-Century Mountain Mans Ghost: White Masculinity in The Revenant

This essay explores racism, male-centrism, and nationalism (un)covered in Alejandro González Iñárritus The Revenant, focusing on its way of invoking white masculinity. Portraying the hero, Hugh Glass, romantically as a white affectionate toward Native Americans and mixed-bloods, The Revenant is reticent in expressing the historical reality of Glass as an aggressive Indian fighter who contributed to westward expansion. Even worse, the film silently instills the long-lasted racist (mis)belief about Native Americans (plus mixed-bloods) as the Vanishing People by making an unbridgeable distance between Glass and his Pawnee wife (and his mixed-blood son). This essay would allow us to see the films strategy forging white Americans masculine robustness within the levels of gender, race, and nation, where other racial and national groups are characterized as effeminate and immoral in a complex way.이 연구는 2016년도 영남대학교 학술연구조성비에 의한 것임