Screening the Male

Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema (livre en anglais)

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Sous la direction de Steve Cohan et Ina Rae Hark

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

masculinité, cinéma américain

Année d'édition

2016

Editeur

Routledge

1ere édition

1992

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 288 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-1-138-16951-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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

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