Screening the Male
Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
Sous la direction de Steve Cohan et Ina Rae Hark
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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 this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as "feminine" in Hollywood narrative and questions just how secure that orthodox male position is.
Screening the Male brings together an impressive group of both established and emerging scholars from Britain, the United States and Australia unified by a concern with issues that film theorists have exclusively inked to the femninie and not the masculne: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generatonal differences.
Revue de Presse:
`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
> Des mêmes auteurs :
American Cinema of the 1930s (2007)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Ina Rae Hark
Sujet : On Films > Per period
> Sur un thème proche :
Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men (2009)
Class in 1970s American Cinema
Sujet : Countries > United States
Armed Forces (2007)
Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film
Sexualised Masculinity (2025)
Men's Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture
de John Mercer et Clarissa Smith
Sujet : Sociology
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