Where the boys are : cinemas of masculinity and youth / edited by Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Gateward, Frances K.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boys in motion pictures.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 421 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A provocative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of boys' identity in modern cinema.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. Archetypes and Façades

1. Bad Boys and Hollywood Hype: Gendered Conflict in Juvenile Delinquency Films

2. Boys Won't Be Boys: Cross-Gender Masquerade and Queer Agency in Ma Vie en rose

3. Survival of the Fattest: Contending with the Fat Boy in Children's Ensemble Films

4. Crazy from the Heat: Southern Boys and Coming of Age

5. "Perfect Childhoods": Larry Clark Puts Boys Onscreen

6. The Beautiful English Boy: Mark Lester and Oliver!

7. The Man-Boys of Steven Spielberg

Part 2. Bonds and Beatifications

8. In Love and Trouble: Teenage Boys and Interracial Romance

9. The "Wee Men" of Glasgow Grow Up: Boyhood and Urban Space in Small Faces

10. The Boys' Price in Martinique: Visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar Cane Alle

11. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy: François Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the Wild Child

12. Out West: Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho and the Lost Mother

13. Mamma's Boy: Counting on Ghosts, Sending Smoke Signals, and Finding Surrogate Fathers in Contemporary Film

14. Slack, Slacker, Slackest: Homosocial Bonding Practices in Contemporary Dude Cinema

Part 3. Struggles and Redefinitions

15. Pursuits of Hapa-ness: Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among Ghosts

16. Cinematic Solutions to the Truancy Trend among Japanese Boys

17. L.I.E., The Believer, and the Sexuality of the Jewish Boy

18. The Feminization and Victimization of the African American Athlete in Boyz N the Hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and Me

19. Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema

20. Jerkus Interruptus: The Terrible Trials of Masturbating Boys in Recent Hollywood Cinema

Contributors

Index

Back_Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814336663

0814336663

OCLC:

777595279