LEADER 03633oam 22005534a 450 001 9910781461103321 005 20210114061207.0 010 $a1-283-23576-5 010 $a9786613235763 010 $a0-253-00084-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041091 035 $a(EBL)713659 035 $a(OCoLC)735596129 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000524762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376362 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10485196 035 $a(PQKB)11708784 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713659 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041091 100 $a20100726d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPerforming American Masculinities$b[electronic resource] $eThe 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture /$fedited by Elwood Watson & Marc E. Shaw 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-35573-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis 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 606 $aMasculinity$zUnited States 606 $aMasculinity in popular culture$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMasculinity 615 0$aMasculinity in popular culture 676 $a305.310973 701 $aShaw$b Marc E$01484395 701 $aWatson$b Elwood$01466816 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781461103321 996 $aPerforming American Masculinities$93703011 997 $aUNINA