ISBN:
9781498525848
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9781498525824
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 209 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Men's studies
Series Statement:
Cultural studies
DDC:
305.420973
Keywords:
Television series - United States - History and criticism
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Television series - United States - History and criticism
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. The essays collected in Screening Images of American Masculinity in the AgeofPostfeminism engage prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate images of U.S. masculinity that have appeared since second-wave feminism, acknowledging the limits of their negotiations and self-actualization. This book covers a wide range of genres and decades: from action and fantasy to dramas and romantic comedy, from the late 1970s to today.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Images -- Introduction -- RECOVERING MASCULINITIES -- Ch01. Fashioning Flexibility: Racial Neoliberalism and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity -- Ch02. "Any closer and you'd be Mom": The Limits of Postfeminist Paternity in the Films of Robin Williams -- Ch03. Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic: The Wrestler and the Demise of American Exceptionalism -- Ch04. The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game? -- MASCULINITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN -- Ch5. Subverting the Master's Hero: Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds as a Feminist-Inflected Space Cowboy -- Ch06. When Eleven-Year-Old Girls Kick-Ass: The Gender Politics of Hit-Girl -- NEGOTIATED MASCULINITIES -- Ch07. "I'm Listening": Analyzing the Masculine Example of Frasier Crane -- Ch08. Hanging with the Boys: Homosocial Bonding and Heterosexual Bromance Coupling in Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal -- Ch09. Some Assembly Required: Joss Whedon's Bridging of Masculinities in Marvel Films' The Avengers -- LOVING ANTI-HEROES -- Ch10. The Falling Man: Nostalgia and Masculinity as Genres of Composure in Mad Men -- Ch11. "Out Like a Man": Straddling the Postfeminist Fence in Dexter and Breaking Bad -- Ch12. Last Men Standing: Will Smith as the Obsolete Patriarchal Male -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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