Bonds of brotherhood in Sons of Anarchy : essays on masculinity in the FX series / edited by Susan Fanetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fanetti, Susan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sons of Anarchy (Television program).

Masculinity on television.

Physical Description:

vi, 173 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

"This collection of new essays explores the show's complicated presentation of masculinity and its cultural implications. Series creator and writer Kurt Sutter depicts male characters who act from a highly traditional sense of what it means to be a man"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The culture of the cut: the hypermasculine world of Sons of anarchy / by Susan Fanetti

Part 1. Institutions of influence: hegemony and identity

"Bros before hoes": violence against women in the name of "bromosociality" / by Shawna Marks

Leather is thicker than blood: institutional and hegemonic masculinity / by Jamieson Ryan

Cynical tolerance: gender, race and fraternal fears / by Christian Jimenez

The sins of the father(s): masculine identity as poisoned inheritance / by Jamie L. Brummer

Part 2. Shapes of influence: culture and narrative

Incapable of his own distress: genderbending Ophelia / by Jessica Walker

Motorcycle monasticism: masculine religiosity in MC culture / by Jossalyn G. Larson

Compilation score and trans-diegetic music: how music helps to give voice to the voiceless / by Jessica Shine

Part 3. No seat at the Table: Outliers in SAMCRO'S World

Lover, Killer, Father, Friend: The Complex case of Nero Padilla / by Andrew Howe

Nero's frontier: Western and Latino masculinity, fatherhood and family / by Monica Montelongo Flores

The performative crisis of Otto Delaney: destruction, dematerialization and masculine identity / by Susan Fanetti

Part 4. Transgressing brotherhood: Tig and Venus

Attempting Redemption with Tig and Venus / by Laurie Norris

Riding crisscross: Venus van dam and the politics of transgender representation / by Peter Nagy

About the contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476671918

1476671915

OCLC:

1022075432