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Performing American masculinities the 21st-century man in popular culture

Title
Performing American masculinities [electronic resource] : the 21st-century man in popular culture / edited by Elwood Watson & Marc E. Shaw.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Watson, Elwood.
  • Shaw, Marc E.
Description
1 online resource (240 p.)
Uniform Title
Performing American masculinities (Online)
Subject
  • Masculinity in popular culture > United States
  • Masculinity > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: from Seinfeld to Obama: millennial masculinities in contemporary American culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson -- Masculinities and the market: late capitalism and corporate influence on gender processes. Masters of their domain: Seinfeld and the discipline of mediated men's sexual economy / C. Wesley Buerkle -- Sexually suspect: masculine anxiety in the films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau -- The might of the metrosexual: how a mere marketing tool challenges hegemonic masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin -- Fathers, sons, and business in the Hollywood "office movie" / Latham Hunter -- Beyond gender alone: defining multidimensional masculinities. Popular memory, racial construction, and the visual illusion of freedom: the re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille -- Obama's masculinities: a landscape of essential contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson -- The male Rapunzel in film: the intersections of disability, gender, race, and sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski -- Masculinities in dating relationships: reality and representation at the intersection of race, class, and sexual orientation / Jimmie Manning -- "Do you have what it takes to be a real man?": female-to-male transgender embodiment and the politics of the "real" in A boy named Sue and body alchemy / Michel J. Boucher.
LCCN
2010029431
OCLC
ssj0000524762
Title
Performing American masculinities [electronic resource] : the 21st-century man in popular culture / edited by Elwood Watson & Marc E. Shaw.
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Watson, Elwood.
Shaw, Marc E.
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