Bonds of brotherhood in Sons of Anarchy
Subtitle: essays on masculinity in the FX series
By: edited by Susan Fanetti
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781476671918
Subjects: Masculinity on television; Sons of Anarchy (Television program)
Description: "This collection of new essays explores the show's complicated presentation of masculinity and its cultural implications. Series creator and writer Kurt Sutter depicts male characters who act from a highly traditional sense of what it means to be a man"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The culture of the cut: the hypermasculine world of Sons of anarchy / by Susan Fanetti; title: Part 1. Institutions of influence: hegemony and identity; title: "Bros before hoes": violence against women in the name of "bromosociality" / by Shawna Marks; title: Leather is thicker than blood: institutional and hegemonic masculinity / by Jamieson Ryan; title: Cynical tolerance: gender, race and fraternal fears / by Christian Jimenez; title: The sins of the father(s): masculine identity as poisoned inheritance / by Jamie L. Brummer; title: Part 2. Shapes of influence: culture and narrative; title: Incapable of his own distress: genderbending Ophelia / by Jessica Walker; title: Motorcycle monasticism: masculine religiosity in MC culture / by Jossalyn G. Larson; title: Compilation score and trans-diegetic music: how music helps to give voice to the voiceless / by Jessica Shine; title: Part 3. No seat at the Table: Outliers in SAMCRO'S World; title: Lover, Killer, Father, Friend: The Complex case of Nero Padilla / by Andrew Howe; title: Nero's frontier: Western and Latino masculinity, fatherhood and family / by Monica Montelongo Flores; title: The performative crisis of Otto Delaney: destruction, dematerialization and masculine identity / by Susan Fanetti; title: Part 4. Transgressing brotherhood: Tig and Venus; title: Attempting Redemption with Tig and Venus / by Laurie Norris; title: Riding crisscross: Venus van dam and the politics of transgender representation / by Peter Nagy; title: About the contributors.