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1	Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body more books like this by Peter Lehman add to wishlist Our patriarchal culture keeps the male body and especially male genitals out of sight. This scheme, Peter Lehman argues, maintains the 'male mystique' and preserves the power of the phallus. Society's intentional blindness to male sexual representation cultivates 'good taste' and avoids perversion. Lehman draws back the curtain. "Running Scared" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| first editions
2	This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age more books like this by Professor Gaylyn Studlar add to wishlist -- American Studies International see all copies from $2.98! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
3	Big Bad Wolves more books like this by Joan Mellen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
4	Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties more books like this by Steven Cohan add to wishlist The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. ... see all copies from $10.82! new only from $22.55! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film more books like this by Robert Lang add to wishlist In the first close look at how Hollywood has reflected and helped shaped masculinity, Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, arguing that it is an ideological-generic construction and that a major function of the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
6	He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies more books like this by Prof. John M Clum add to wishlist ""He's All Man"" is John M. Clum's insightful, biting and characteristically humorous analysis of the central myths of American manhood that have been propagated by Hollywood films and dramatized by our major playwrights. In the politically incorrect way he dared to ask "What happened to gay irony?" in "Something for the Boys," Clum now dares to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions
7	Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film more books like this by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell add to wishlist Lee Clark Mitchell argues in this study that is not stereotypical props and images that give Westerns their perennial appeal, but the genre's deftness in addressing the fears and obsessions of its (eastern) audience. Over the years no obsession has figured more prominently, asserts Mitchell, than the question of what it means to be a man. Ranging ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Heroes, Antiheroes, and Dolts: Masculinity in American Popular Films, 1921-1999 more books like this by Ashton D Trice, Samuel A Holland add to wishlist This book discusses 75 of the most popular films in America from 1921 to 1999, and the changes that have taken place in how masculinity is portrayed in the movies over that period. see all copies from $7.48! new only from $56.53! \| SVS
9	Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema more books like this by Steven Cohan (Editor), Ina M Hark (Editor), Ina Mae Mark (Editor) add to wishlist Screening the Male re-examines the problematic status of masulinity 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. feminst criticism has shown how difficult it is for the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $37.41! \| first editions
10	The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema more books like this by Kyung Hyun Kim add to wishlist In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past two decades has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound socio-political changes underway in Korea. Since 1980, the country has transformed from an insular, authoritarian culture into a democratic and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $32.98! \| first editions
11	Acting Male: Masculinities in the Films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood more books like this by Dennis Bingham add to wishlist Drawing parallels between acting and star-making and such concepts of gender identity as masquerade and role playing, Dennis Bingham points out tensions between the mask of masculinity and the 'naturalness' designed to obscure it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| first editions
12 view cover	City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield more books like this by Professor Robert Sklar add to wishlist Beginning with "The Public Enemy", produced by Warner Bros in 1931, James Cagney established a new cultural type on the American screen and in the world's imagination. That "type", later developed by Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield, was the urban tough guy - small, wiry, savvy and street-smart. Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter ... see all copies from $3.74! new only from $47.70! \| first editions
13 view cover	Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir more books like this by Professor John T Irwin add to wishlist Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon". Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, ... see all copies from $14.92! new only from $14.92! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Spectacular bodies : gender, genre and the action cinema. more books like this by Yvonne Margaret Tasker add to wishlist While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.13! \| first editions
15 view cover	Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Black Peters and Men of Marble more books like this by Ewa Mazierska add to wishlist The object of this book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. see all copies from $37.93! new only from $72.78!
16 view cover	Male Jealousy: Literature and Film more books like this by Louis Lo add to wishlist A well argued, comparative study of male jealousy in literature and film, informed by critical theory and engaging with key philosophical figures such as Derrida, Freud and Lacan."Male Jealousy: Literature and Film" is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the ... see all copies from $49.99! new only from $52.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Murray Pomerance (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.02! new only from $31.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era more books like this by Susan Jeffords add to wishlist Hard Bodies looks at some of the most popular films of the Reagan era and examines how the characters, themes, and stories presented in them often helped to reinforce and disseminate the policies, programs, and beliefs of the 'Reagan Revolution.' see all copies from $7.72! new only from $23.51! \| SVS
19 view cover	Male Trouble more books like this by Constance Penley add to wishlist see all copies from $3.10! new only from $60.86!
20 view cover	Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience more books like this by Gaylyn Studlar (Editor), David Desser (Editor) add to wishlist Bringing together recent essays, classic pieces by Andrew Sarris and James Agee, as well as two Huston short stories and an interview with the film maker, this book explores the ideology, social and political backdrop, and vision of the American male in such films as "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "The Maltese Falcon." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.72! \| first editions
21 view cover	Black Manhood on the Silent Screen more books like this by Gerald R Butters, Jr., Jr Gerald R Butters add to wishlist In early-20th-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. However, few people realize that from 1915 to 1929 a number of African-American film directors worked diligently to counter such racist definitions of black manhood found in films like D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a ... see all copies from $10.89! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girl: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Murray Pomerance (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.44! new only from $20.18! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Big bad wolves : masculinity in the American film more books like this by Joan Mellen add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
24	You Tarzan : masculinity, movies and men more books like this by Pat Kirkham, Janet Thumim add to wishlist In "You Tarzan", the editors set out to broaden the enquiry into masculinity, taking popular cinema as their starting point. A number of male film scholars have been invited to turn the spotlight back on themselves; to name the "un-named" feelings raised by films, stars or genres as well as importing some of the insights of feminist writing on ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
25	Tough Guy: The American Movie Macho more books like this by James L Neibaur add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions \| SVS

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