Male beauty
Subtitle: postwar masculinity in theater, film, and physique magazines
By: Kenneth Krauss
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781438450018; 9781438450001
Subjects: Masculinity in popular culture; Masculinity in mass media; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Sex role in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures
Description: Examines how masculinity was presented and perceived after World War II.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Seeing through the glass menagerie: the emerging specter of male beauty; title: Dangerous male beauty in the masculine style: regular and irregular guys in tea and sympathy; title: Albee's untold story: the aftermath of male youth and beauty; title: Complicated masculinity: the beauty of Montgomery Clift; title: Doing and undoing masculinity: The early performances of Marlon Brando; title: Beauty forever young: the brief career of James Dean; title: All about Dick: physique magazines and the career of Richard Harrison; title: As beauty does: the retreating Dr. Bishop; title: Johnny, we hardly knew ye: male sex, sexuality, and gender; title: Conclusion.