@article{ref1,
title="What's it all about, Alfie? Antisocial males in the early films of Sir Michael Caine",
journal="Medical humanities",
year="2004",
author="Spence, S. A.",
volume="30",
number="1",
pages="27-31",
abstract="Early in his film career the actor Sir Michael Caine portrayed a series of antisocial males: Harry Palmer, Alfie Elkins, Charlie Croker, and Jack Carter. The behaviours exhibited by these fictional males resemble those of &quot;real life&quot; patients acquiring the diagnoses of antisocial or dissocial personality disorder. Prominent among their traits is a disregard for others, a lack of guilt, and a resort to instrumental (goal directed) violence. The exhibition of antisocial conduct may be seen as a rejection of the values of the social hierarchy, the dominant or patriarchal order. Demonstrable through a defiance of dominant males and a recurrent seduction of &quot;their&quot; women, these Caine characters act out an Oedipal theme, repeatedly attempting subversion of the symbolic &quot;father&quot;-society itself. So often, the material of &quot;real life&quot; social behaviour is fleeting and hard to elicit reliably; however, these fictional characters provide a stable source of such exemplars, both entertaining and instructive.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1468-215X",
doi="10.1136/jmh.2003.000151",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2003.000151"
}