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Male Trouble /

The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Willis, Sharon, 1955- (Editor), Penley, Constance, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Constance Penley and Sharon Willis
  • Per os(cillation) / Parveen Adams
  • Fellowdrama / Ray Barrie (with introduction by Mark Cousins)
  • Masochism and male subjectivity / Kaja Silverman
  • Male hysteria and early cinema / Lynne Kirby
  • Male narcissism and national culture : subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children / Rey Chow
  • The cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee : consumerism and sexual terror / Constance Penley
  • The Playhouse of the signifier : reading Pee-wee Herman / Ian Balfour
  • "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-wee / Henry Jenkins III
  • The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes : queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world / Alexander Doty
  • Masquerading as the American male in the fifties : Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film / Steven Cohan
  • "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton
  • Disputed territories : masculinity and social space / Sharon Willis
  • Melodrama, masculinity, and the family : thirtysomething as therapy / Sasha Torres.