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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786586503321

Titolo

Communicating marginalized masculinities : identity politics in TV, film, and new media / / edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie E. Moshin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2013

ISBN

1-136-22765-2

0-203-09857-9

1-283-86157-7

1-136-22766-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

JacksonRonald L. <1970->

MoshinJamie E

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Masculinity in mass media

Race relations in mass media

Ethnicity in mass media

Identity (Psychology) and mass media

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

Cover; Communicating Marginalized Masculinities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Communicating Marginalized Masculinities; 1 Kairos, Kanye and Katrina: Online Meditations on Race and Masculinity; 2 "Is that a PC in Your Pocket, or is it Something More?" The Newton PDA and White-Collar Masculinity; 3 Competing South Asian Mas(k)ulinities: Bollywood Icons versus "Tech-N-Talk"; 4 Color and Movement: The Male Dancer, Masculinity and Race in Film; 5 A Gendered Shell Game: Masculinity and Race in District 9

6 The Evolution of an Identity: G.I. Joe and Black Masculinity7 A "Vocabulary of Feeling": Japanese American Masculinity in Conscience and the Constitution; 8 Fat, Sass and Laughs: Black Masculinity in Drag; 9 Narrating the Presidential "Race": Barack Obama and the American Dream; 10 The Man in the Box: Masculinity and Race in Popular Television; 11 White Masculinity and the TV Sitcom Dad:Tracing the "Progression" of Portrayals of Fatherhood; 12 From Album Novel to



Cowboy Soap Opera: Melancholia, Race and Carnival in the Multi-Media Works of Mario Prata

13 Smooth and Latin: Reflections on Mario Lopez, Ballroom Dancing, and Latino Masculinity14 "State Property" and Friends: Black Men's Performances of Masculinity and Race in Prison; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized ide