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Millennial Masculinity : Men in Contemporary American Cinema /
In virtually every aspect of culture - health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics - American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In this book, the editor collects fourteen contributions that consid...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Performing masculinity. Adam Sandler, an apologia : anger, arrested adolescence, amour fou / Aaron Taylor ; "Politics is theater" : performance, sexuality, and Milk / Donna Peberdy ; Feelings and firefights : gendered performance in cop action climaxes / Neal King
- II. Patriarchal problems. "I'd fight my dad" : absent fathers and mediated masculinities in Fight club / Mike Chopra-Gant ; "Because I hate fathers, and I never wanted to be one" : Wes Anderson, entitled masculinity, and the "Crisis" of the patriarch / Chris Robe ; Allegory of deliverance: class and gender in Scorsese's Bringing out the dead / R. Barton Palmer ; American psycho family values : conservative cinema and the new Travis Bickles / David Greven
- III. Exceptional sexualities. Death of the strong silent type : the achievement of Brokeback Mountain / Christopher Sharrett ; More than buddies : Wedding crashers and the bromance as comedy of (re)marriage equality / Maria San Filippo ; The queer fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman / Caetlin Benson-Allott
- IV. Facing race. Inside men : Black masculinity in the films of Spike Lee and John Singleton / Melvin Donalson ; Legendary troubles : trauma, masculinity, and race in I am legend / Claire Sisco King ; Male style and race in the neoretro heist film / Mark Gallagher ; Flexible masculinities and the Rush hour franchise : the Asian body, the American male, and global Hollywood / Gina Marchetti.