Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood CinemaSteve Cohan, Ina Rae Hark Routledge, 10 sept. 2012 - 288 pagini 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. |
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VALENTINO OPTIC INTOXICATION AND DANCE MADNESS | 23 |
FEMINIZING THE SONGANDDANCE MAN Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical | 46 |
MAMAS BOY Filial hysteria in White Heat | 70 |
THE DIALECTIC OF FEMALE POWER AND MALE HYSTERIA IN PLAY MISTY FOR ME | 87 |
DONT BLAME THIS ON A GIRL Female raperevenge films | 103 |
DARK DESIRES Male masochism in the horror film | 118 |
MORE HUMAN THAN I AM ALONE Womb envy in David Cronenbergs The Fly and Dead Ringers | 134 |
ANIMALS OR ROMANS Looking at masculinity in Spartacus | 151 |
FEMINISM THE BOYZ AND OTHER MATTERS REGARDING THE MALE | 173 |
THE BUDDY POLITIC | 194 |
MASCULINITY AS MULTIPLE MASQUERADE The mature Stallone and the Stallone clone | 213 |
DUMB MOVIES FOR DUMB PEOPLE Masculinity the body and the voice in contemporary action cinema | 230 |
CAN MASCULINITY BE TERMINATED? | 245 |
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