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Millennial Masculinity : Men in Contemporary American Cinema.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media SeriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814338445
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Millennial MasculinityDDC classification:
  • 791.43/652041
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M46 -- M55 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Performing Masculinity -- 1. Adam Sandler, an Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou -- 2. "Politics Is Theater": Performance, Sexuality, and Milk -- 3. Feelings and Firefights: Gendered Performance in Cop Action Climaxes -- II. Patriarchal Problems -- 4. "I'd Fight My Dad": Absent Fathers and Mediated Masculinities in Fight Club -- 5. "Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One": Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the "Crisis" of the Patriarch -- 6. Allegory of Deliverance: Class and Gender in Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead -- 7. American Psycho Family Values: Conservative Cinema and the New Travis Bickles -- III. Exceptional Sexualities -- 8. Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain -- 9. More than Buddies: Wedding Crashers and the Bromance as Comedy of (Re)Marriage Equality -- 10. The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman -- IV. Facing Race -- 11. Inside Men: Black Masculinity in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton -- 12. Legendary Troubles: Trauma, Masculinity, and Race in I Am Legend -- 13. Male Style and Race in the Neoretro Heist Film -- 14. Flexible Masculinities and the Rush Hour Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood -- Appendix: U.S. Films since 1990 Addressing Masculinity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Performing Masculinity -- 1. Adam Sandler, an Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou -- 2. "Politics Is Theater": Performance, Sexuality, and Milk -- 3. Feelings and Firefights: Gendered Performance in Cop Action Climaxes -- II. Patriarchal Problems -- 4. "I'd Fight My Dad": Absent Fathers and Mediated Masculinities in Fight Club -- 5. "Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One": Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the "Crisis" of the Patriarch -- 6. Allegory of Deliverance: Class and Gender in Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead -- 7. American Psycho Family Values: Conservative Cinema and the New Travis Bickles -- III. Exceptional Sexualities -- 8. Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain -- 9. More than Buddies: Wedding Crashers and the Bromance as Comedy of (Re)Marriage Equality -- 10. The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman -- IV. Facing Race -- 11. Inside Men: Black Masculinity in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton -- 12. Legendary Troubles: Trauma, Masculinity, and Race in I Am Legend -- 13. Male Style and Race in the Neoretro Heist Film -- 14. Flexible Masculinities and the Rush Hour Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood -- Appendix: U.S. Films since 1990 Addressing Masculinity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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