Description: Screening the Male Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema Author(s): Steve Cohan, Ina Rae Hark Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Routledge ISBN-13: 9780415077590, 978-0415077590 Synopsis Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as "feminine" in Hollywood narrative and questions just how secure that orthodox male position is. Screening the Male brings together an impressive group of both established and emerging scholars from Britain, the United States and Australia unified by a concern with issues that film theorists have exclusively inked to the femninie and not the masculne: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generatonal differences.
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Book Title: Screening the Male
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Publication Year: 1992
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 408 g
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Author: Steve Cohan, Ina Rae Hark
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
