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Book SynopsisA provocative examination of the troubled images of masculinity in contemporary media and popular culture.
Table of ContentsPer os(cillation), Parveen Adarns; Fellowdrama, Ray Barrie; Masochism and male subjectivity, Kaja Silvennan; Male hysteria and early cinema, Lynne Kirby; Male narcissism and national culture - subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children Rey Chow Dossier on Pee-wee's playhouse The cabinet of Dr Pee-wee - consumerism and sexual terror, Constance Penley; The playhouse of the signifier - reading Pee-wee, Herman Ian Balfour; "Going bonkers!" - children, play, and Pee-wee, Henry Jenkins III; The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes - queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world, Alexander Doty; Masquerading as the American male in the fifties - Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film, Steven Cohan; "Crisscross" - paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train Sabrina Barton; Disputed territories - masculinity and social space, Sharon Willis; Melodrama, masculinity, and the family - thirtysomething as therapy, Sasha Torres.
