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Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema
Santiago Fouz-Hernández
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Description for Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema
Paperback. Borrowing its title from Gregg Araki's 2005 film, in which the camera's contemplation of the male body encourages us to feel that body, and covering a span of subjects and films, this title offers a representative picture of the depiction of the male body in contemporary world cinemas than has hitherto been attempted. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 integrated black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
Borrowing its title from Gregg Araki's 2005 film, in which the camera's contemplation of the male body encourages us to feel that body, and covering a broad span of subjects and films, "Mysterious Skin" offers a wider, more representative picture of the depiction of the male body in contemporary world cinemas than has hitherto been attempted. An international array of major experts explore the treatment of masculinity and the male body in the cinemas of Africa, Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, North America, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam, as well as Hollywood.Their common concern is to reveal how the ... Read more
Borrowing its title from Gregg Araki's 2005 film, in which the camera's contemplation of the male body encourages us to feel that body, and covering a broad span of subjects and films, "Mysterious Skin" offers a wider, more representative picture of the depiction of the male body in contemporary world cinemas than has hitherto been attempted. An international array of major experts explore the treatment of masculinity and the male body in the cinemas of Africa, Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, North America, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam, as well as Hollywood.Their common concern is to reveal how the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845118310
SKU
V9781845118310
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About Santiago Fouz-Hernández
Santiago Fouz-Hern��ndez lectures Spanish Cinema at the University of Durham, UK. He is co-author of 'Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema' (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and co-editor of 'Madonna���s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations' (1983-2003) (2004). He is reviews editor of the journal 'Studies in Hispanic Cinemas'.
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