The Man Card

Synopsis

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman card.” This new film turns the tables and takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding – but rarely discussed – deployment of white-male identity politics in American presidential elections. Ranging from Richard Nixon’s tough-talking, law-and-order campaign in 1968 to Donald Trump’s hyper-macho revival of the same fear-based appeals in 2020, "The Man Card" shows how the right has mobilized dominant ideas about manhood and enacted a deliberate strategy to frame Democrats and liberals as soft, brand the Republican Party as the party of “real men,” and position conservatives as defenders of white male power and authority in the face of transformative demographic change and ongoing struggles for racial, gender, and sexual equality.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Peter Hutchison Lucas Sabean
Crew	Creator	Jackson Katz
Production	Producer	Peter Hutchison Lucas Sabean
	Executive Producer	Sut Jhally Jeremy Earp
	Co-Producer	Loretta Alper Jackson Katz
	Consulting Producer	David Mello
	Production Assistant	Jason Young
Writing	Writer	Jackson Katz Jeremy Earp
	Script Consultant	Peter Hutchison
Editing	Editor	Lucas Sabean
Sound	Sound Mixer	Keith Robinson
	Sound Designer	Matt Snedecor
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