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Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television

Author : Brian Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567386
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television written by Brian Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century has yet to emerge. Professor Brian Baker, evolving from his previous work Masculinities in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000, intervenes to rectify the scholarship in the field to produce a wide-ranging, readable text that deals with films and other texts produced since the year 2000. Focusing on representations of masculinity in cinema, popular fiction and television from the period 2000-2010, he argues that dominant forms of masculinity in Britain and the United States have become increasingly informed by anxiety, trauma and loss, and this has resulted in both narratives that reflect that trauma and others which attempt to return to a more complete and heroic form of masculinity. While focusing on a range of popular genres, such as Bond films, war movies, science fiction and the Gothic, the work places close analyses of individual films and texts in their cultural and historical contexts, arguing for the importance of these popular fictions in diagnosing how contemporary Britain and the United States understand themselves and their changing role in the world through the representation of men, fully recognising the issues of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age. Baker draws upon current work in mobility studies and in the study of masculinities to produce the first book-length comparative study of masculinity in popular culture of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television

Author : Brian Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501300301
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television

Author : Brian Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567475
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television written by Brian Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century has yet to emerge. Professor Brian Baker, evolving from his previous work Masculinities in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000, intervenes to rectify the scholarship in the field to produce a wide-ranging, readable text that deals with films and other texts produced since the year 2000. Focusing on representations of masculinity in cinema, popular fiction and television from the period 2000-2010, he argues that dominant forms of masculinity in Britain and the United States have become increasingly informed by anxiety, trauma and loss, and this has resulted in both narratives that reflect that trauma and others which attempt to return to a more complete and heroic form of masculinity. While focusing on a range of popular genres, such as Bond films, war movies, science fiction and the Gothic, the work places close analyses of individual films and texts in their cultural and historical contexts, arguing for the importance of these popular fictions in diagnosing how contemporary Britain and the United States understand themselves and their changing role in the world through the representation of men, fully recognising the issues of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age. Baker draws upon current work in mobility studies and in the study of masculinities to produce the first book-length comparative study of masculinity in popular culture of the first decade of the twentieth century.

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Author : Marianne Kac-Vergne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786723158
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema written by Marianne Kac-Vergne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American films from Blade Runner to Avatar, this major new study offers the first ever analysis of masculinity in science fiction cinema. It uncovers the evolution of masculine heroes from the 1980s until the present day, and the roles played by their feminine counterparts. Considering gender alongside racial and class politics, Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema also situates filmic examples within the broader culture. It is indispensable for understanding science fiction and its role in contemporary cultural politics.

Scars and Wounds

Author : Nick Hodgin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319410245
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Scars and Wounds written by Nick Hodgin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in cinematic trauma studies, including Australia, Rwanda, Chile and Iran. Each essay establishes national and international contexts that are relevant to the films considered. All essays also deal with form, whether this means the use of specific techniques to represent certain aspects of trauma or challenges to certain genre conventions to make them more adaptable to the traumatic legacies addressed by directors. The editors argue that the healing processes associated with such legacies can helpfully be studied through the idiom of ‘scar-formation’ rather than event-centred ‘wound-creation’.

Conflicting Masculinities

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608168
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Conflicting Masculinities written by Katherine Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

Masculinity and Popular Television

Author : Rebecca Feasey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631798
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity and Popular Television written by Rebecca Feasey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the 'common sense' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape.

Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Author : Sara Martín
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031221443
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture written by Sara Martín and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of positive representations of men in fictional and non-fictional texts. The editors show how ideas of hegemonic and toxic masculinity have been too fixed on the exploration of dominance and subservience, and too little on the men (and the male characters in fiction) who behave following other ethical, personal and socially accepted patterns. Bringing together research from different periods and genres, this collection provides broad, multidisciplinary insights into alternative representations of masculinity.

Beginning film studies

Author : Andrew Dix
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784997749
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Beginning film studies written by Andrew Dix and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of recent developments in the discipline, and up-to-the-minute suggestions for further reading. The book begins by considering some of film's formal features - mise-en-scène, editing and sound - before moving outwards to narrative, genre, authorship, stardom and ideology. Later chapters on film industries and on film consumption - where and how we watch movies - assess the discipline's recent geographical 'turn'. The book references many film cultures, including Hollywood, Bollywood and contemporary Hong Kong. Case studies cover such topics as sound in The Great Gatsby and narrative in Inception. The superhero movie is studied; so too is Jennifer Lawrence. Beginning film studies is also interactive, with readers enabled throughout to reflect critically upon the field.

The Cosmopolitan Dream

Author : Derek Hird
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888455850
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Dream written by Derek Hird and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to transnational influences has made Chinese notions of masculinity more cosmopolitan than ever before, yet the configurations of these hybrid masculinities retain the imprint of Chinese historical models. With the increasing interconnectivity of markets around the world, the hegemonic mode of manhood is now a highly mobile transnational business form of masculinity. However, the fusion of this kind of cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics has not diminished the conventional class and gender privileges for educated men. On the other hand, the traditionally prized intellectual masculinity in Chinese culture, which did not hold commerce in high regard, has reconciled with today’s business values. Together these factors shape the outlook of the contemporary generation of Chinese elites. At the same time globalization has increased the cross-country mobility of blue-collar Chinese men, who may possess a masculine ideal that is different from their white-collar counterparts. Therefore it is important to examine various types of masculinity with the recent, reform-era mainland Chinese migration. The migrant man—whether he is a worker, student, pop idol, or writer (all cases studied in this volume)—could face challenges to his masculinity based on his race, class, intimate partners, or fatherhood. The strategies adopted by the Chinese men to reinvent their masculine identities in these stories offer much insight into the complex connections between masculinity and the rapid socioeconomic developments of postsocialist China. “The Cosmopolitan Dream provides a rich and multidisciplinary window into how Chinese masculinities are both shaping and being shaped by a new era of globalization, one in which circulations of Chinese capital, images, and people play an ever more important role. This is an insightful and engaging work that makes important contributions to the study of media, gender, migration, and globalization more broadly.” —John Osburg, University of Rochester “A pioneering contribution toward understanding transnational Chinese masculinities. Covering both imagined representations and the actual experience of migrating Chinese men, this volume is definitely greater than the sum of its parts in conveying the contents and significance of cosmopolitanism to Chinese masculinities.” —Harriet Zurndorfer, Leiden University

Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film

Author : Susan Mackey-Kallis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793626081
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film written by Susan Mackey-Kallis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.

Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Author : Randal Rogers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000881172
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy written by Randal Rogers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carré’s 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stands among the most reproduced espionage tales of all time, with adaptations in television, radio, and film. Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a collection of essays by international experts who each provides an account of the story’s currency across generations of audiences and scholars. Fans of the late John le Carré and the espionage genre will find here a comprehensive guidebook to the novel and its adaptations. Scholars, students, and amateur investigators alike will discover important historical, thematic, and theoretical ideas to explore and interrogate. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a complex tale of the espionage trade and its crew of motley eccentrics. This collection decodes its puzzles, riddles, and enigmas regarding secrecy, betrayal, ethics, and survival in the context of the United Kingdom’s place in the post-Second World War global order. A comprehensive guide for amateurs and an in-depth study of the novel’s histories, legacies, and approaches for students and scholars.

Gender and Action Films 1980-2000

Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180117508X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.

The Occult World

Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317596757
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Occult World written by Christopher Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.

The Trouble with Men

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764083
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Men written by Phil Powrie and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt into four sections -- stars, class and race, fathers and bodies -- areas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema, romantic comedy and beur cinema.

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze

Author : Kim Wilkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474447635
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze written by Kim Wilkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions

Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Author : Josep M. Armengol
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031533488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film written by Josep M. Armengol and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence.