Performing American Masculinities [electronic resource] : The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture / edited by Elwood Watson & Marc E. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Marc E.

Watson, Elwood.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--United States.

Masculinity.

Masculinity in popular culture--United States.

Masculinity in popular culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular culture -- theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events -- to pose questions about the process of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing political forms. The first section explores masc

Contents:

Introduction: from Seinfeld to Obama: millennial masculinities in contemporary American culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson

Masculinities and the market: late capitalism and corporate influence on gender processes. Masters of their domain: Seinfeld and the discipline of mediated men's sexual economy / C. Wesley Buerkle

Sexually suspect: masculine anxiety in the films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau

The might of the metrosexual: how a mere marketing tool challenges hegemonic masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin

Fathers, sons, and business in the Hollywood "office movie" / Latham Hunter

Beyond gender alone: defining multidimensional masculinities. Popular memory, racial construction, and the visual illusion of freedom: the re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille

Obama's masculinities: a landscape of essential contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson

The male Rapunzel in film: the intersections of disability, gender, race, and sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski

Masculinities in dating relationships: reality and representation at the intersection of race, class, and sexual orientation / Jimmie Manning

"Do you have what it takes to be a real man?": female-to-male transgender embodiment and the politics of the "real" in A boy named Sue and body alchemy / Michel J. Boucher.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-23576-5

9786613235763

0-253-00084-X

OCLC:

735596129