Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film - Brossura

Lang, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0231113005 ISBN 13: 9780231113007

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

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--primarilyThe Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly,Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batman series, andJerry 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.

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L'autore:

Robert Lang is associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford. He is the author ofAmerican Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli, and editor of The Birth of a Nation. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tunis.

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Book by Lang Robert

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0231113005
• ISBN 13: 9780231113007
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 381