Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2011]
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| 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.