He's All Man
Subtitle: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312240356
Subjects: Homosexuality; Specific Groups In Film; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Gay Studies; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Social Science / Gay Studies; American; Homosexuality and motion pictu; Homosexuality in motion pictur; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Machismo in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures
First sentence: In one episode of the American version of the British television series Queer as Folk, fey, willowy Emmett (Peter Paige), who is ashamed of being a "nelly bottom," fantasizes that his Internet sex chat-room persona, a beefy brute with a 9" x 6" (6" circumference, I imagine) dick, comes to life and teaches him how to become a "top."
Description: ""He's All Man" is John M. Clum's insightful, biting, and characteristically humorous analysis of the central myths of American manhood that have been propagated by Hollywood films and dramatized by our major playwrights.

In the politically incorrect way he dared to ask "What happened to gay irony?" in Something for the Boys, Clum now dares to ask the explosive question "What is the vision of the American Male that Hollywood has sold us?" "He's All Man" examines the ways in which homoeroticism has been part of the myth of American manhood, wrapping itself around cowboy, soldier, and gangster legends as they fuse to create a picture of the quintessential American male. From Audie Murphy to The Sands of Iwo Jima and The Maltese Falcon, Clum takes us on a tour of the roughs, the toughs, and the fluffs that swagger, strut, and pirouette their way through the Hollywood Masculinity Machine and the ways in which gay filmmakers have bought into the Hollywood vision of manhood and romance. Just as Something for the Boys raised hackles and caused controversy over Lorenz Hart's lyrics and Ethel Merman's lungs, "He's All Man" will surely do the same for Edward G.

Robinson's cigar and Marlon Brando's t-shirt."--BOOK JACKET.