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Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
Steve Cohan
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Paperback. A series of essays from an impressive group of international scholars re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Editor(s): Cohan, Steve; Hark, Ina Rae. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as feminine ... Read more
Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as feminine ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415077590
SKU
V9780415077590
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