464 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
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Routledge
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Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.
Introduction Ideology and Masculinity l The Dominant Fiction 2 Historical Trauma and Male Subjectivity. The Gaze and the Look 3 Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of Gaze, Look and Image 4 Too Early/Too Late: Male Subjectivity and the Primal Scene. Masochism 5 Masochism and Male Subjectivity 6 Masochistic Ecstasy and the Ruination of Masculinity in Fassbinder's Cinema. Libidinal Politics 7 White Skins, Brown Masks: The Double Mimesis, or With Lawrence in Arabia 8 A Woman's Soul Enclosed in a Man's Body: Femininity in Male Homosexuality
Biography
Kaja Silverman teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.
