Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema

by Yates, Candida

• ISBN13: 9781403986214
• ISBN10: 1403986215
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema provides new insights into the relationship between masculinity and jealousy through the study of representations of male jealousy in contemporary Hollywood cinema. It argues that male jealousy has played a key role in the psycho-cultural shaping of Western masculinities and male fantasy, and this is explored through case studies of films and their reception in the press. The book will interest graduates, postgraduates and researchers exploring theories of masculinity and jealousy, cinematic theories of representation, stardom and spectatorship.

Author Biography

CANDIDA YATES is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her research interests include masculinity, affect, cinema and cultural change. She is co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Setting the Scene: Masculinity, Jealousy and Contemporary Culture	p. 1
The Psycho-Cultural Shaping of Masculine Jealousy	p. 17
Psychoanalytic Understandings of Masculinity and Jealousy	p. 19
Theories of Masculinity, Cinema, Spectatorship and the Jealous Gaze	p. 42
Analysing Jealousy Texts from a Psycho-Cultural Perspective	p. 58
Masculine Jealousy in the Movies	p. 73
Taxi Driver: The Psychopathic Hero and the Rescue Romance: How Jealousy Drives the Narrative Along (M. Scorsese, USA, 1976)	p. 75
Michael Douglas: Envy, Greed and Jealous Desire in A Perfect Murder (A. Davis, USA, 1998)
Englishness, Nation and Masculine Jealousy in The End Of The Affair (N. Jordan, USA/UK, 1999)	p. 108
The Piano:A Feminine Narrative of Masculine Jealousies (J. Campion, Australia/New Zealand, 1993)	p. 124
Unfaithful: A Tale of Female Infidelity and the Jealousy of a Good Husband (A. Lyne, USA, 2002)	p. 141
Conclusion: Towards an Understanding of Masculinity, Jealousy and Cinema	p. 164
Case Study Film Synopses	p. 179
Notes	p. 184
Filmography	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 202
Index	p. 219
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