Where the boys are : cinemas of masculinity and youth / / edited by Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward

• Pubblicazione: Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 421 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 791
• Soggetto topico: Boys in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures
• Altri autori: PomeranceMurray <1946-> GatewardFrances K
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Archetypes and Façades -- 1. Bad Boys and Hollywood Hype: Gendered Conflict in Juvenile Delinquency Films -- 2. Boys Won't Be Boys: Cross-Gender Masquerade and Queer Agency in Ma Vie en rose -- 3. Survival of the Fattest: Contending with the Fat Boy in Children's Ensemble Films -- 4. Crazy from the Heat: Southern Boys and Coming of Age -- 5. "Perfect Childhoods": Larry Clark Puts Boys Onscreen -- 6. The Beautiful English Boy: Mark Lester and Oliver! -- 7. The Man-Boys of Steven Spielberg -- Part 2. Bonds and Beatifications -- 8. In Love and Trouble: Teenage Boys and Interracial Romance -- 9. The "Wee Men" of Glasgow Grow Up: Boyhood and Urban Space in Small Faces -- 10. The Boys' Price in Martinique: Visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar Cane Alle -- 11. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy: François Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the Wild Child -- 12. Out West: Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho and the Lost Mother -- 13. Mamma's Boy: Counting on Ghosts, Sending Smoke Signals, and Finding Surrogate Fathers in Contemporary Film -- 14. Slack, Slacker, Slackest: Homosocial Bonding Practices in Contemporary Dude Cinema -- Part 3. Struggles and Redefinitions -- 15. Pursuits of Hapa-ness: Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among Ghosts -- 16. Cinematic Solutions to the Truancy Trend among Japanese Boys -- 17. L.I.E., The Believer, and the Sexuality of the Jewish Boy -- 18. The Feminization and Victimization of the African American Athlete in Boyz N the Hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and Me -- 19. Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema -- 20. Jerkus Interruptus: The Terrible Trials of Masturbating Boys in Recent Hollywood Cinema -- Contributors -- Index -- Back_Cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Where the boys are
• ISBN: 0-8143-3666-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825076203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary approaches to film and television series.