Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greven, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • When Hollywood masculinity became self-aware
  • Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush
  • An ill-fated bacchanal: Casualties of war and the horror of the homosocial
  • Male medusas and female heroes: fetishism and ambivalence in The silence of the lambs
  • The Hollywood man date: split masculinity and the double-protagonist film
  • Destroying something beautiful: narcissism, male violence, and the homosocial in Fight club
  • "Am I blue?" Vin Diesel and multiracial male sexuality
  • The devil wears abjection: The passion of the Christ
  • Narcissus transfigured: Brokeback Mountain
  • The reign of masochism.