| Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture Contributor(s): Lehman, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415923247 ISBN-13: 9780415923248 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Men on film are central to constructing that elusive category of "masculinity", yet until recently masculinity was the unnamed subject of studies of gender in cinema. In MASCULINITY Peter Lehman -- a pioneer of masculinity studies -- brings together new work by an impressive group of film scholars, performance artists, and cultural critics to examine our myriad ways of screening the male body. Through the lens of such films as Deliverance, Swingers, Ransom, and the James Bond oeuvre, the contributors explore the emergence of the new queer cinema, the return of the angry white male, the convention of gay men saving heterosexual romances, the prevalence of the "melodramatic penis" in current film, and the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class, and generational differences. This volume lays the groundwork for men and women -- straight, gay, or lesbian -- to better understand the complex and shifting category of masculinity in both film and everyday life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Men's Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 00030827 |
| Series: AFI Film Readers |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (0.97 lbs) 318 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lehman 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. |