Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture (AFI Film Readers) (Afi Film Readers)
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Review
"...Lehman offers us a fascinating menu of how notions of masculinity are fabricated and maintained.."
-Village Voice, September 18, 2001
Book Description
Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze such trends as the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality, the emergence of the new queer cinema, the prevalence of the "melodramatic penis" in current film, the resurgence of white masculinity, masculinity in World War II films, and the relationship between nationhood and the male body in 1990s Canadian cinema.
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture (AFI Film Readers) (Afi Film Readers)
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture (AFI Film Readers) (Afi Film Readers),PETER LEHMAN,Routledge,0415923247,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Homosexuality in motion pictur,Homosexuality in motion pictures,Machismo in motion pictures,Masculinity,Men in motion pictures,Men's Studies - General,Men's Studies - Masculinity,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Social Science,Sociology,United States,Film theory & criticism,Men's studies
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