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Author: D. Peberdy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0230308708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen.
Author: F. Walsh
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-04
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0230281753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.
Author: Peter Lehman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1135273472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema.
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012-12-17
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0814338445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilm and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Author: Steve Cohan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997-12-22
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780253115874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female viewers alike. Drawing on publicity, poster art, fan magazines, and the popular press as a means of following the links between fifties stars, their films, and the social tensions of the period, Cohan juxtaposes Hollywood's narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen.
Author: Sean Parson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1498591507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuperheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the industry, and the fan base at large. However, Superheroes and Masculinity also argues that possibilities of resistance and change are embedded within these problematic portrayals. To this end, several chapters explore alternative portrayals of queerness within superhero representations and read the hegemonic masculinity of various characters against the grain to produce queer possibilities. Ultimately, this collection argues that the quest to unmask how gender operates within superheroes is a crucial one.
Author: Asbjørn Grønstad
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 908964010X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
Author: Emma Hamilton
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906165604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West. Where did these cowboys come from? This book explores the relationship between the Western, film and historical representation and the ways in which masculine gender performance is itself historical.
Author: Scott Balcerzak
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0814339662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.
Author: K. Combe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 113735982X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness and monsterliness, offer a window into the workings of current American society.
