Screening the Male : Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema.
Title:
Screening the Male : Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema.
Author:
Cohan, Steve.
ISBN:
9780203142219
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- SCREENING THE MALE: Exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE MASCULINITY AS SPECTACLE : Reflections on men and mainstream cinema -- Part I STAR TURNS -- 1 VALENTINO, 'OPTIC INTOXICATION,' AND DANCE MADNESS -- 2 'FEMINIZING' THE SONG-AND-DANCE MAN: Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical -- 3 MAMA'S BOY: Filial hysteria in White Heat -- Part II MEN IN WOMEN'S PLACES -- 4 THE DIALECTIC OF FEMALE POWER AND MALE HYSTERIA IN PLAY MISTY FOR ME -- 5 'DON'T BLAME THIS ON A GIRL': Female rape-revenge films -- 6 DARK DESIRES: Male masochism in the horror film -- 7 'MORE HUMAN THAN I AM ALONE': Womb envy in David Cronenberg's The Fly and Dead Ringers -- Part III MAN TOMAN -- 8 ANIMALS OR ROMANS: Looking at masculinity in Spartacus -- 9 FEMINISM, 'THE BOYZ,' AND OTHER MATTERS REGARDING THE MALE -- 10 THE BUDDY POLITIC -- Part IV MUSCULAR MASCULINITIES -- 11 MASCULINITY AS MULTIPLE MASQUERADE: The 'mature' Stallone and the Stallone clone -- 12 DUMB MOVIES FOR DUMB PEOPLE: Masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema -- 13 CAN MASCULINITY BE TERMINATED? -- INDEX OF FILMS -- GENERAL INDEX.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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