Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : I'm not really a man, but I play one in movies
  • Part one : James Stewart, your average bisexual
  • "Hollywood didn't invent him" : mythology and "naturalness"
  • "Boy's stuff" and the surrendering gaze : Mr. Smith goes to Washington
  • Gender trouble at the OK corral : Destry rides again
  • Bombing missions, station wagons, and bisexuality : Stewart postwar
  • Hitchcock and biopics
  • Remembering Stewart
  • Part two : Jack Nicholson : performance anxiety and the act of masculinity
  • Hollywood "epic"
  • What exactly is "easy"? : Nicholson at BBS
  • "A staging of the father" : Nicholson and Oedipal narrative in The last detail and Chinatown
  • Masculinity and hallucination : The shining
  • Nicholson as the system : the 1980s and early 1990s
  • Part three : Clint Eastwood : male violence, performed, disavowed, unforgiven
  • Men with no names
  • Authority of one : the Dirty Harry films
  • "That buried world" : Eastwood and sexuality in The beguiled and Tightrope
  • Acting and "manliness" : White hunter, black heart
  • "Deserve's got nothing to do with it," or men with no names II : Unforgiven.