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Manly arts : masculinity and nation in early American cinema / David A. Gerstner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerstner, David A., 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men in motion pictures.
- Masculinity in motion pictures.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the anxieties of class and race and the conflicts between New and Old Worlds that attend the elevation of masculinity as a defining characteristic of early American cinema and visual culture.
- Contents:
- Nineteenth-Century Formulations of Masculinity and Realism: The Body of Edwin Forrest
- The e Battle Cry of Peace and the Spectacle of Realism
- African American Realism: Oscar Micheaux, Autobiography, and the Ambiguity of Black Male Desire
- Manhatta: A National Self-Portrait
- The Queer Frontier: Vincente Minnelli's Cabin in the Sky.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022240
- 9781283022248
- 1283022249
- 9780822387664
- 0822387662
- OCLC:
- 220950321
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