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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788684003321

Titolo

Millennial masculinity [[electronic resource] ] : men in contemporary American cinema / / edited by Timothy Shary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8143-3844-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Altri autori (Persone)

SharyTimothy <1967->

Disciplina

791.43/652041

Soggetti

Men in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States

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 (p. 321-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface              ""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""I. Performing Masculinity                                ""; ""1. Adam Sandler, an Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou""; ""2. “Politics Is Theaterâ€?: Performance, Sexuality, and Milk                                                                 ""; ""3. Feelings and Firefights: Gendered Performance in Cop Action Climaxes                                                                              ""

""II. Patriarchal Problems                               """"4. “Iâ€?d Fight My Dadâ€?: Absent Fathers and Mediated Masculinities in Fight Club                                                                                     ""; ""5. “Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be Oneâ€?: Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the “Crisisâ€? of the Patriarch                                                                                                                                       ""; ""6. Allegory of Deliverance: Class and Gender in Scorseseâ€?s Bringing Out the Dead""

""7. American Psycho Family Values: Conservative Cinema and the New Travis Bickles""""III. Exceptional Sexualities                                   ""; ""8. Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain                                                                                ""; ""9. More than Buddies: Wedding Crashers and the Bromance as Comedy of (Re)Marriage Equality                                                                                                 ""

""10. The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman                                                  """"IV. Facing Race                      ""; ""11. Inside Men: Black Masculinity



in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton                                                                                     ""; ""12. Legendary Troubles: Trauma, Masculinity, and Race in I Am Legend                                                                           ""; ""13. Male Style and Race in the Neoretro Heist Film                                                         ""

""14. Flexible Masculinities and the Rush Hour Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood                                                                                                                      """"Appendix: U.S. Films since 1990 Addressing Masculinity                                                             ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Contributors                   ""; ""Index            ""