| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 (with introduction by Mark Cousins) -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reubens, Paul, 1952-
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Men in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Penley, Constance, 1948- editor
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Willis, Sharon, 1955- editor
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| LC no. |
92025407 |
| ISBN |
0816684766 (electronic bk.) |
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9780816684762 (electronic bk.) |
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