| Description |
xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Camera obscura book |
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Camera obscura book.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Constance Penley and Sharon Willis -- Per Os(cillation) / Parveen Adams -- Fellowdrama / Ray Barrie -- Masochism and Male Subjectivity / Kaja Silverman -- Male Hysteria and Early Cinema / Lynne Kirby -- Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children / Rey Chow -- Dossier on Pee-Wee's Playhouse -- The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror / Constance Penley -- The Playhouse of the Signifier: Reading Pee-wee Herman / Ian Balfour -- "Going Bonkers!": Children, Play, and Pee-wee / Henry Jenkins III -- The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World / Alexander Doty -- Masquerading as the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film / Steven Cohan -- "Crisscross": Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train / Sabrina Barton -- Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space / Sharon Willis |
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Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Family: thirtysomething as Therapy / Sasha Torres |
| Summary |
The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today |
| Analysis |
Men in motion pictures |
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Rubens, Paul 1953- |
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Sex role in motion pictures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reubens, Paul, 1952-
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Pee-Wee's playhouse (Television program)
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Pee-wee Herman show (Television program)
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Herman, Pee-wee (Fictitious character)
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Masculinity.
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Men in motion pictures.
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Men in popular culture.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role on television.
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| Author |
Penley, Constance, 1948-
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Willis, Sharon, 1955-
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
92025407 |
| ISBN |
0816621713 |
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0816621721 |
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