The documentary Tough Guise showed us that today men suffer from the necessity to prove that they are men through violence. We know from the history of men that the idea that men had to prove their manhood through violence reached full articulation in the nineteenth century. How did Cooper's Last of the Mohicans contribute to or inhibit the idea that violence was an expression of manhood? Does the movie version of Last of the Mohicans (made in 1993) exacerbate that idea (as Tough Guise would suggest)?
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