Screening genders / edited and with an introduction by Krin Gabbard and William Luhr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabbard, Krin.

Luhr, William.

Series:

Rutgers depth of field series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between."

The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. The ten essays that follow address a range of topics, including screen stars; depictions of gay, straight, queer, and transgender subjects; and the relationship between gender and genre. Widely respected scholars, including Robert Eberwein, Lucy Fischer, Chris Holmlund, E. Ann Kaplan, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, David Lugowski, Patricia Mellencamp, Jerry Mosher, Jacqueline Reich, and Chris Straayer, focus on the radical ideological advances of contemporary cinema, as well as on those groundbreaking films that have shaped our ideas about masculinity and femininity, not only in movies but in American culture at large.

The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.

Contents:

A history of gender theory in cinema studies / E. Ann Kaplan

Theory into practice / Lucy Fischer

Stars, gender and nation / Jacqueline Reich

Wham! Bam! Pam! / Chris Holmlund

Crisis and fear at the movies and in life; or On being as old as my grandmother / Patricia Mellencamp

Ginger Rogers and gay men? / David Lugowski

"As a mother cuddles a child" / Robert T. Eberwein

Transgender mirrors / Chris Straayer

Hard boiled and soft bellied / Jerry Mosher

Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-180) and index.

ISBN:

9780813543390

0813543398

9780813543406

0813543401

OCLC:

180204979