1st Edition
Screening the Male Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in... Read more
Contributors: Susan Jeffords, Yvonne Tasker, Cynthia J.Fuchs, Helen W. Robbins, Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark, Peter Lehman, Gaylyn Studlar, Robyn Wiegman, Steven Neale, Lucy Fischer, Christine Holmlund, Barbara Cred, Adam Knee
Biography
Steve Cohan, Ina Rae Hark
`Shows comprehensively from Valentino and Astaire through Douglas and Eastwood to Stallone and Schwarzenegger that it is wrong to take masculinity for granted ... An important resource book both on courses and for further research.' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times
