Violent Labour and the Labour of a Violent Genre

Violent Labour and the Labour of a Violent Genre

This article offers a symptomatic reading of the 2016 Western genre film Hell or High Water, analyzing first the film’s narration of the changes to the oil-based nuclear family in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession. The article finds in this version of the family a key example of grieving for mod...

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Main Author: Dylan Calmes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) 2025-07-01
Series:Media Theory
Subjects:
Genre
Family
Oil
Violent Labour
Online Access:https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/1165
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