Pimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen
Subtitle: essays on media images of masculinity
By: edited by Elwood Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Elwood.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland; McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780786443055
Subjects: Masculinity in motion pictures; Masculinity on television; Masculinity in popular culture -- United States; Mass media and culture -- United States; Masculinity -- Social aspects -- United States; Masculinity -- Political aspects -- United States
Description: "This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo; title: Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham; title: Ambivalence, desire and the re-Imagining of Asian masculinity in Better luck Tomorrow / Ruthann Lee; title: The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott; title: Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy in reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc; title: Bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl Carter; title: Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: The case of Will Smith /  David Magill; title: Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein; title: Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose; title: Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith; title: Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom; title: Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson / Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw; title: O.J. Simpson: tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson; title: Major league baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman.