Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2011]
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pistols and stamens : gender and genre in D. W. Griffith's Broken blossoms
  • Walking small : W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition
  • Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western
  • The classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll
  • Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in the delicate delinquent
  • "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in the cool world
  • Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 a space odyssey
  • Taking back The night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film
  • Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film
  • Man's favorite sport? the action films of Kathryn Bigelow.