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1 online resource (x, 281 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. |
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Includes filmography: pages 271-272. |
| Contents |
The politics of the "white male as victim." Losing ground : representations of white male disenfranchisement in Anglo-American popular cinema ; Literalizing the wound : paternal melodramas, masochism, and white heterosexual masculinity in popular U.S. cinema -- Coming apart at the seams? : white heterosexual masculinity and the body in popular cinema. Fleshing out white heterosexual masculinity : the objectified and commodified white male body ; Terminal bodies and Cartesian trips : white heterosexual masculinity in cyberfantasies ; Queering white heterosexual masculinity : cross-dressing and transgender cinema ; White skin, black masks? : male "wiggers" in contemporary popular cinema -- Marking white male violence : the gangster and the serial killer. White male violence in Quentin Tarantiono's gangster films ; Everyman and no man : white masculinity in contemporary serial killer movies. |
| Summary |
"Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the "ordinary" form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such "ordinariness" also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity." "At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but else of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Masculinity in motion pictures. |
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Heterosexual men in motion pictures.
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Heterosexual men in motion pictures. |
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White people in motion pictures.
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White people in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rehling, Nicola, 1970- Extra-ordinary men. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739124826 (DLC) 2008042288 (OCoLC)261201402 |
| ISBN |
9780739133897 (electronic book) |
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0739133896 (electronic book) |
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9781461633426 (electronic book) |
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1461633427 (electronic book) |
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9780739124826 |
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073912482X |
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9780739124895 |
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0739124897 |
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