ISBN:
9780415623070
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Communicating Marginalized Masculinities : Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media
DDC:
302.230811
Keywords:
Ethnicity in mass media
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Identity (Psychology) and mass media
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Masculinity in mass media
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Race relations in mass media
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized identi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Communicating Marginalized Masculinities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Communicating Marginalized Masculinities; 1 Kairos, Kanye and Katrina: Online Meditations on Race and Masculinity; 2 "Is that a PC in Your Pocket, or is it Something More?" The Newton PDA and White-Collar Masculinity; 3 Competing South Asian Mas(k)ulinities: Bollywood Icons versus "Tech-N-Talk"; 4 Color and Movement: The Male Dancer, Masculinity and Race in Film; 5 A Gendered Shell Game: Masculinity and Race in District 9
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Evolution of an Identity: G.I. Joe and Black Masculinity7 A "Vocabulary of Feeling": Japanese American Masculinity in Conscience and the Constitution; 8 Fat, Sass and Laughs: Black Masculinity in Drag; 9 Narrating the Presidential "Race": Barack Obama and the American Dream; 10 The Man in the Box: Masculinity and Race in Popular Television; 11 White Masculinity and the TV Sitcom Dad:Tracing the "Progression" of Portrayals of Fatherhood; 12 From Album Novel to Cowboy Soap Opera: Melancholia, Race and Carnival in the Multi-Media Works of Mario Prata
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Smooth and Latin: Reflections on Mario Lopez, Ballroom Dancing, and Latino Masculinity14 "State Property" and Friends: Black Men's Performances of Masculinity and Race in Prison; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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