Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema /
A series of essays from an impressive group of international scholars re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : masculinity as spectacle : reflections on men and mainstream cinema / Steve Neale
- Valentino, 'optic intoxication, ' and dance madness / Gaylyn Studlar
- 'Feminizing' the song-and-dance man : Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan
- Mama's boy : filial hysteria in White heat / Lucy Fischer
- The dialectic of female power and male hysteria in Play Misty for me / Adam Knee
- 'Don't blame this on a girl' : female rape-revenge films / Peter Lehman
- Dark desires : male masochism in the horror film / Barbara Creed
- 'More human than I am alone' : womb envy in David Cronenberg's The fly and Dead ringers / Helen W. Robbins
- Animals or Romans : looking at masculinity in Spartacus / Ina Rae Hark
- Feminism, 'the boyz, ' and other matters regarding the male / Robyn Wiegman
- The buddy politic / Cynthia J. Fuchs.
- Masculinity as multiple masquerade : the 'mature' Stallone and the Stallone clone / Chris Holmlund
- Dumb movies for dumb people : masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema / Yvonne Tasker
- Can masculinity be terminated? / Susan Jeffords.
