Masculinity in Fiction and Film
Title | Masculinity in Fiction and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Baker |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2008-06-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1847062628 |
Covers wide range of popular British and American fiction and film including Westerns, spy fiction, science fiction and crime narratives.
Masculinity and Film Performance
Title | Masculinity and Film Performance PDF eBook |
Author | D. Peberdy |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230308708 |
A 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.
Screening the Male
Title | Screening the Male PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cohan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2012-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134900090 |
Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as "feminine" in Hollywood narrative and questions just how secure that orthodox male position is. Screening the Male brings together an impressive group of both established and emerging scholars from Britain, the United States and Australia unified by a concern with issues that film theorists have exclusively inked to the femninie and not the masculne: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generatonal differences.
Masked Men
Title | Masked Men PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cohan |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1997-12-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253115874 |
The 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.
Irish Masculinity on Screen
Title | Irish Masculinity on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Paul Moser |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2013-06-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 147660245X |
Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford, Sheridan and Greengrass--whose careers, taken together, span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity, patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts, and in the process upset conventional notions of masculine authority. Furthermore, Ford's later films interestingly depart from the egalitarian ideals that distinguish his pre-World War II films.
NEW HEROES ON SCREEN
Title | NEW HEROES ON SCREEN PDF eBook |
Author | Rocío Carrasco Carrasco |
Publisher | Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2018-04-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 841706673X |
This book analyses the representation of new models of masculinity in US recent science fiction cinema. By examining the figure of the new hero, a male protagonist with visible unconventional features, it explores new ways of gender representation on screen. Lynchs Dune (1984) and the Wachowsky brothers The Matrix (1999) share many traits concerning gender representation and offer the type of the androgynous hero who stands for innovative prototypes of masculinity. As a result of these films analysis, the book uncovers the tangible controversy in current US society about gender tolerance.
Me Jane
Title | Me Jane PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Kirkham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Essays on the issues of gender and identity on the big screen.