Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Part I: Questions of Sex and Gender
  • 1. Sex and Gender 25
  • 2. Feminism/Patriarchy/Masculinity 43
  • Part II: Maleness/Masculinity/Spectatorship
  • 3. Gendered Identification: Fantasy, Masquerade, Readership 59
  • 4. Spectatorship Theory 74
  • 5. Genre and Gender: Melodrama and Soap Opera 84
  • Part III: Maleness/Masculinity/Spectacle
  • 6. Hollywood's "Feminization" of the Male 107
  • 7. The 1950s: The United States, Hollywood, and Hitchcock 121
  • 8. A Sample of Five 1950s Movies 140
  • 9. Toward Some Conclusions 187
  • Notes 194
  • Bibliography 208
  • Index 217.