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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781461103321

Titolo

Performing American Masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture / / edited by Elwood Watson & Marc E. Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23576-5

9786613235763

0-253-00084-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShawMarc E

WatsonElwood

Disciplina

305.310973

Soggetti

Masculinity - United States

Masculinity in popular culture - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: from Seinfeld to Obama: millennial masculinities in contemporary American culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson -- Masculinities and the market: late capitalism and corporate influence on gender processes. Masters of their domain: Seinfeld and the discipline of mediated men's sexual economy / C. Wesley Buerkle -- Sexually suspect: masculine anxiety in the films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau -- The might of the metrosexual: how a mere marketing tool challenges hegemonic masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin -- Fathers, sons, and business in the Hollywood "office movie" / Latham Hunter -- Beyond gender alone: defining multidimensional masculinities. Popular memory, racial construction, and the visual illusion of freedom: the re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille -- Obama's masculinities: a landscape of essential contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson -- The male Rapunzel in film: the intersections of disability, gender, race, and sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski -- Masculinities in dating relationships: reality and representation at the intersection of race, class, and sexual orientation / Jimmie Manning --



"Do you have what it takes to be a real man?": female-to-male transgender embodiment and the politics of the "real" in A boy named Sue and body alchemy / Michel J. Boucher.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American                popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining                possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular                culture -- theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content,                television, photography, and current events -- to pose questions about the process                of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing                political forms. The first section explores masc