The trouble with men : masculinities in European and Hollywood cinema / edited by Phil Powrie, Ann Davies and Bruce Babington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powrie, Phil.

Davies, Ann, 1961-

Babington, Bruce

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and men.

Men in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Europe--History.

Motion pictures.

Europe.

History.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2004.

Summary:

The Trouble With Men is a timely new collection of essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Split into four sections - Stars, Class & Race, Fathers and Bodies - areas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema and romantic comedy. National cinemas discussed include Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, as well as discussion of masculinity as represented by contemporary Hollywood. Michael Caine's status as a working-class hero is featured alongside Gene Kelly and Alain Delon's spectacular masculinity; other case studies include Aprile (Nanni Moretti), Seul contre tous (Gaspar Noe), Notting Hill (Roger Michell), The Beach (Danny Boyle) and Gladiator (Ridley Scott).

Contents:

Introduction: Turning the Male Inside Out / Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington, Ann Davies 1

Section 1 Stars

1 Dancing with balls in the 1940s: sissies, sailors and the camp masculinity of Gene Kelly / Steven Cohan 18

2 He is as he is - and always will be: Clark Gable and the reassertion of hegemonic masculinity / Timothy Connelly 34

3 Framing the wolf: the spectacular masculinity of Alain Delon / Graeme Hayes 42

4 Deconstructing Paco Rabal: masculinity, myth and meaning / Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas 54

5 Masculinity and class: Michael Caine as 'working-class hero' / Robert Shail 66

6 The reluctance to commit: Hugh Grant and the new British romantic comedy / Andrew Spicer 77

Section 2 Class & Race

7 Cinema's queer Jews: Jewishness and masculinity in Yiddish cinema / Michele Aaron 90

8 A working-class hero is something to be? Changing representations of class and masculinity in British cinema / John Hill 100

9 Masculinity and exclusion in post-1995 Beur and banlieue films / Carrie Tarr 110

Section 3 Fathers

10 Herr Lubitsch joins the Corps Saxonia: history, gesture and homosociality in The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg / Bruce Babington 122

11 'Pink neorealism' and the rehearsal of gender roles 1946-55 / Mary Wood 134

12 'Can the man panic?': masculinity and fatherhood in Nanni Moretti's Aprile / Paul Sutton 144

13 Lost boys: trauma, masculinity and the missing child film / Emma Wilson 155

14 Like father?: failing parents and angelic children in contemporary British social realist cinema / James Leggott 163

Section 4 Bodies

15 Queer looks, male gazes, taut torsos and designer labels: contemporary cinema, consumption and masculinity / Pamela Church Gibson 176

16 The male body and the female gaze in Carmen films / Ann Davies 187

17 'They look so uncomplicated once they're dissected': the act of seeing the dead penis with one's own eyes / Peter Lehman 196

18 The w/hole and the abject / Phil Powrie 207

19 Batman, masculinity and the technology of abjection / Calvin Thomas 218.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

1904764096

1904764088

OCLC:

56449970