Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.
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From the Back Cover
"Practically all mainstream cinema is "straight," and has been since its inception. In Straight, Wheeler Winston Dixon examines explores how heterosexual performativity has been constructed in film, from early cinema to the present day. In addition to discussing how cinematic visions of masculine and feminine desire are have been commodified and sold to reinforce existing societal constructs, . The book also explores the various ways in which men and women are "typed" into differing versions of heterosexual performativity. Dixon also documents the recent emergence of "hypermasculinity," a which presents the audience with a series of kinetic and exaggerated performances of "masculinity" to that has been created to counter the more gentle, thoughtful male portrayedsited in such films as While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, and other films contemporary constructions of the male, which that seemingly threaten the established order of patriarchal cinematic discourse."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video),Wheeler Winston Dixon,State University of New York Press,0791456242,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Gender Studies,Man-woman relationships in mot,Man-woman relationships in motion pictures,Masculinity in motion pictures,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Sex role in motion pictures
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