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

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Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Description:240 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8385095
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Other authors / contributors:Watson, Elwood.
Shaw, Marc E.
ISBN:9780253355737 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253355737 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253222701 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253222702 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.