Masculine interests : homoerotics in Hollywood film / Robert Lang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Robert, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Film and culture.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Film and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Men in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 381 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films-primarily The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batman series, and Jerry Maguire-Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum, he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

1. Masculine Interests

2. Oedipus in Africa: The Lion King

3. To "Have Known Ecstasy": Hunting Men in The Most Dangerous Game

4. Friendship and Its Discontents: The Outlaw

5. Looking for the "Great Whatsit": Kiss Me Deadly and Film Noir

6. Midnight Cowboy's Backstory

7. Innerspace: A Spectacular Voyage to the Heart of Identity

8. Batman and Robin: A Family Romance

9. My Own Private Idaho and the New Queer Road Movies

10. "The Things We Think and Do Not Say": Jerry Maguire and the Business of Personal Relationships

Concerning Happiness: An Afterword

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231505437

0231505434

OCLC:

51311737