Screening images of American masculinity in the age of postfeminism / / edited by Elizabeth Abele and John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797852303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4985-2583-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 209 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.43/65211
• Soggetti: Masculinity in motion pictures; Masculinity on television; Motion pictures - United States - History and criticism; Television series - United States - History and criticism
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Images; Introduction; RECOVERING MASCULINITIES; Chapter 1. Fashioning Flexibility: Racial Neoliberalism and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity; Chapter 2. "Any closer and you'd be Mom": The Limits of Postfeminist Paternity in the Films of Robin Williams; Chapter 3. Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic: The Wrestler and the Demise of American Exceptionalism; Chapter 4. The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game?; MASCULINITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN; Chapter 5. Subverting the Master's Hero: Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds as a Feminist-Inflected Space Cowboy; Chapter 06. When Eleven-Year-Old Girls Kick-Ass: The Gender Politics of Hit-Girl NEGOTIATED MASCULINITIES; Chapter 07. "I'm Listening": Analyzing the Masculine Example of Frasier Crane; Chapter 08. Hanging with the Boys: Homosocial Bonding and Heterosexual Bromance Coupling in Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal; Chapter 09. Some Assembly Required: Joss Whedon's Bridging of Masculinities in Marvel Films' The Avengers; LOVING ANTI-HEROES; Chapter 10. The Falling Man: Nostalgia and Masculinity as Genres of Composure in Mad Men; Chapter 11. "Out Like a Man": Straddling the Postfeminist Fence in Dexter and Breaking Bad; Chapter 12. Last Men Standing: Will Smith as ; the Obsolete Patriarchal Male; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. The essays collected in Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Post-feminism engage prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate images of U.S. masculinity that have appeared since second-wave feminism, acknowledging the limits of their negotiations and self-actualization. This book covers a wide range of genres and decades: from action and fantasy to dramas and romantic comedy, from the late 1970s to today.