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Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities : Gender, Genre, and Politics / by Susanne Kord, Elisabeth Krimmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kord, Susanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication.
- Motion pictures, American.
- Sex.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Television broadcasting.
- Arts.
- Media and Communication.
- American Film and TV.
- Gender Studies.
- Film and TV History.
- Film and Television Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Media and Communication.
- American Film and TV.
- Gender Studies.
- Film and TV History.
- Film and Television Studies.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Men in trouble
- Lawlessness and disorder: cops and other serial killers
- Fathers, crises and nations
- Cowboys, myths and audiences
- Real men? Superheroes, leadership and the war on terror
- Spies, paranoia, and torture
- Soldiers from World War II to Iraq
- New men? Rogues, race, and hegemony
- Lovers: men, women, and gender equality
- Losers, meritocracy and identification
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613440709
- 9781137372833
- 1137372834
- 9781283440707
- 1283440709
- 9781137016218
- 1137016213
- OCLC:
- 775872827
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