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Cinemas of boyhood : masculinity, sexuality, nationality / edited by Timothy Shary.
LIBRA PN1995.9.B7 C56 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boys in motion pictures.
- Masculinity in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and boyhood in film. This collected volume features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- ch. 1 Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of Superbad / Erica Horton
- ch. 2 The Once and Future King: Negotiating the Survival of Boys in 1990s Cinema / Katie Barnett
- ch. 3 Transing Normative Boyhood Masculinity in Alain Berliner's Ma Vie en Rose / Ryan M. Lescure
- ch. 4 Adolescent Same-Sex Romance and Non-Traditional Masculinity in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho and Do Comeco ao Fim / Hannah Mueller
- PART II
- ch. 5 The Rumble of Nostalgia: Francis Ford Coppola's Vision of Boyhood / Molly Lewis
- ch. 6 Thatcher's Sons?: 1980s Boyhood in British Cinema, 2005
- 2010 / Andy Pope
- ch. 7 When Jackie Coogan Had His Hair Cut: Masculinity, Maturity, and the Movies in the 1920s / Peter W. Lee
- ch. 8 "I Am Trying" to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par / Natasha Anand
- ch. 9 Back in Time Yet of His Time: Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role Model / Daniel Smith-Rowsey.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as two special issue of Boyhood Studies: Volume 8, issue 2 (2015) and Volume 9, issue 1 (2016)" -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781789209938
- 1789209935
- 9781789209945
- 1789209943
- OCLC:
- 1221015194
- Publisher Number:
- 99990302291
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