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Male beauty : postwar masculinity in theater, film, and physique magazines / Kenneth Krauss ; Laurie Searl, production ; Kate McDonnell, marketing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krauss, Kenneth, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity in mass media.
- Masculine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as men—many of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as "manly"—extended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Seeing through the glass menagerie: the emerging specter of male beauty
- Looks count: dangerous male beauty in Tea and sympathy
- Albee's untold story: the aftermath of male youth and beauty
- Male beauty conflicted: the destabilizing performances of Montgomery Clift
- Doing and undoing masculinity: The early performances of Marlon Brando
- Beauty forever young: the brief career of James Dean
- All about Dick: physique magazines and the career of Richard Harrison
- As beauty does: the retreating Dr. Bishop
- Johnny, we hardly knew ye: male sex, sexuality, and gender
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438450025
- 1438450028
- OCLC:
- 877868284
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