03090nam 2200649 a 450 991080782720332120200520144314.01-137-37283-41-283-44070-997866134407091-137-01621-310.1057/9781137016218(CKB)2550000000084211(EBL)858911(OCoLC)775872827(SSID)ssj0000598847(PQKBManifestationID)11381397(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598847(PQKBWorkID)10592308(PQKB)11419291(DE-He213)978-1-137-01621-8(MiAaPQ)EBC858911(EXLCZ)99255000000008421120110606d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary Hollywood masculinities gender, genre, and politics /Susanne Kord and Elisabeth Krimmer1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20111 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-34141-X 0-230-33841-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Men in trouble -- Lawlessness and disorder: cops and other serial killers -- Fathers, crises and nations -- Cowboys, myths and audiences -- Real men? Superheroes, leadership and the war on terror -- Spies, paranoia, and torture -- Soldiers from World War II to Iraq -- New men? Rogues, race, and hegemony -- Lovers: men, women, and gender equality -- Losers, meritocracy and identification -- Conclusion.Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.Masculinity in motion picturesMen in motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory21st centuryMasculinity in motion pictures.Men in motion pictures.Motion picturesHistoryMotion picturesHistory791.43/653Kord Susanne457709Krimmer Elisabeth1967-1754921MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807827203321Contemporary Hollywood masculinities4191437UNINA