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Acting male : masculinities in the films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood / Dennis Bingham.
- Title
- Acting male : masculinities in the films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood / Dennis Bingham.
- Author
- Bingham, Dennis, 1954-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.M46 B56 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : I'm not really a man, but I play one in movies -- Part one : James Stewart, your average bisexual -- "Hollywood didn't invent him" : mythology and "naturalness" -- "Boy's stuff" and the surrendering gaze : Mr. Smith goes to Washington -- Gender trouble at the OK corral : Destry rides again -- Bombing missions, station wagons, and bisexuality : Stewart postwar -- Hitchcock and biopics -- Remembering Stewart -- Part two : Jack Nicholson : performance anxiety and the act of masculinity -- Hollywood "epic" -- What exactly is "easy"? : Nicholson at BBS -- "A staging of the father" : Nicholson and Oedipal narrative in The last detail and Chinatown -- Masculinity and hallucination : The shining -- Nicholson as the system : the 1980s and early 1990s -- Part three : Clint Eastwood : male violence, performed, disavowed, unforgiven -- Men with no names -- Authority of one : the dirty harry films -- "That buried world" : Eastwood and sexuality in The beguiled and Tightrope -- Acting and "manliness" : White hunter, black heart -- "Deserve's got nothing to do with it," or men with no names II : Unforgiven.
- ISBN
- 0813520738 :
- 0813520746 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^^93037678^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library