Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture

by Lehman,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415923231
• ISBN10: 0415923239
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze such trends as the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality, the emergence of the new queer cinema, the prevalence of the "melodramatic penis" in current film, the resurgence of white masculinity, masculinity in World War II films, and the relationship between nationhood and the male body in 1990s Canadian cinema.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
Peter Lehman
``Someone Is Going to Pay'': Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom	7	(18)
Krin Gabbard
Crying Over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s	25	(18)
Peter Lehman
The Saviors and the Saved: Masculine Redemption in Contemporary Films	43	(8)
Amy Aronson
Michael Kimmel
Identity, Queerness, and Homosocial Bonding: The Case of Swingers	51	(16)
Justin Wyatt
Rape Fantasies: Hollywood and Homophobia	67	(14)
Joe Wlodarz
Choosing to Be ``Not a Man'': Masculine Anxiety in Nouri Bouzid's Rih Essed/Man of Ashes	81	(14)
Robert Lang
Maher Ben Moussa
T(he)-Men's Room: Masculinity and Space in Anthony Mann's T-Men	95	(20)
Susan White
The Telented Poststructuralist: Heteromasculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing	115	(18)
Chris Straayer
``Emotional Constipation'' and the Power of Dammed Masculinity: Deliverance and the Paradoxes of Male Liberation	133	(16)
Sally Robinson
``As a Mother Cuddles a Child'': Sexuality and Masculinity in World War II Combat Films	149	(18)
Robert Eberwein
The Nation and the Nude: Colonial Masculinity and the Spectracle of the Male Body in Recent Canadian Cinema(s)	167	(26)
Lee Parpart
Lynching Photography and the ``Black Beast Rapist'' in the Southern White Masculine Imagination	193	(20)
Amy Louise Wood
Screening the Italian-American Male	213	(14)
Aaron Baker
Juliann Vitullo
``Studs Have Feelings Too'': Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender	227	(16)
Lucia Bozzola
James Bond's Penis	243	(14)
Toby Miller
Oliver Stone's Nixon and the Unmanning of the Self-Made Man	257	(22)
Dennis Bingham
Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: A Performative Exploration of Men's Bodies	279	(22)
Tim Miller
Contributors	301	(4)
Index	305