Extra-ordinary men : white heterosexual masculinity in contemporary popular cinema /
"Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the "ordinary" form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position a...
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The politics of the "white male as victim." Losing ground : representations of white male disenfranchisement in Anglo-American popular cinema ; Literalizing the wound : paternal melodramas, masochism, and white heterosexual masculinity in popular U.S. cinema
- Coming apart at the seams? : white heterosexual masculinity and the body in popular cinema. Fleshing out white heterosexual masculinity : the objectified and commodified white male body ; Terminal bodies and Cartesian trips : white heterosexual masculinity in cyberfantasies ; Queering white heterosexual masculinity : cross-dressing and transgender cinema ; White skin, black masks? : male "wiggers" in contemporary popular cinema
- Marking white male violence : the gangster and the serial killer. White male violence in Quentin Tarantiono's gangster films ; Everyman and no man : white masculinity in contemporary serial killer movies.
