Ghost faces : Hollywood and post-millennial masculinity / David Greven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greven, David, author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

The SUNY series horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey's and Gilles Deleuze's paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher film Scream to bromances and beta male comedies such as I Love You, Man to dramas such as Donnie Darko and 25th Hour to Rob Zombie's remake of the horror film Halloween. Greven also traces the disturbing connections between torture porn found in such films as Hostel and gay male Internet pornography. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: disrecognitions

Ghost faces, genre bodies

The murderous origins of bromance: genre, queer killers, and Scream

"I love you, Brom Bones": beta male comedies, bromances, and American culture

Apparitional men: masculinity and the psychoanalytic scene

Trick-or-treating alone: Rob Zombie's Halloween

Torture/porn: hostel, homophobia, and gay male internet pornography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index.inp.

ISBN:

9781438460079

1438460074

OCLC:

946012501