Millennial Masculinity
Men in Contemporary American Cinema
Published on 17. December 2012
384 pages
978-0-8143-3844-5 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Performing Masculinity
- 1. Adam Sandler, an Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou
- 2. "Politics Is Theater": Performance, Sexuality, and Milk
- 3. Feelings and Firefights: Gendered Performance in Cop Action Climaxes
- II. Patriarchal Problems
- 4. "I'd Fight My Dad": Absent Fathers and Mediated Masculinities in Fight Club
- 5. "Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One": Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the "Crisis" of the Patriarch
- 6. Allegory of Deliverance: Class and Gender in Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead
- 7. American Psycho Family Values: Conservative Cinema and the New Travis Bickles
- III. Exceptional Sexualities
- 8. Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain
- 9. More than Buddies: Wedding Crashers and the Bromance as Comedy of (Re)Marriage Equality
- 10. The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman
- IV. Facing Race
- 11. Inside Men: Black Masculinity in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton
- 12. Legendary Troubles: Trauma, Masculinity, and Race in I Am Legend
- 13. Male Style and Race in the Neoretro Heist Film
- 14. Flexible Masculinities and the Rush Hour Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood
- Appendix: U.S. Films since 1990 Addressing Masculinity
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
