Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush / David Greven.
Publisher: Austin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University of Texas Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780292719873; 9780292719880
Subjects: Masculinity in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: when Hollywood masculinity became self-aware. An ill-fated bacchanal: casualties of war and the horror of the homosocial; title: Male medusas and female heroes: fetishism and ambivalence in The silence of the lambs; title: The Hollywood man date: split masculinity and the double-protagonist film; title: Destroying something beautiful: narcissism, male violence, and the homosocial in Fight club; title: "Am I blue?" Vin Diesel and multiracial male sexuality; title: The devil wears abjection: The passion of the Christ; title: Narcissus transfigured: Brokeback Mountain.