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Book SynopsisCreating gender on page, stage, and screen
Trade ReviewThis overview of turn-of-the-millennium sexual identities examines the contradictions and instabilities inherent in latter-day American masculinity as evidenced in pop culture. ... A fine contribution to contemporary gender criticism. ...Highly recommended.October 2011
* Choice *
Into this [cultural studies] minefield, 'Performing American Masculinities' steps and, given its expansive scope of inquiry (ranging from Seinfeld [NBC, 1989–1998] to Obama), attempts to cover a lot of ground. An admirable . . . ambition to map representational through-lines across textual forms and to address both fictional performances and real embodiments of American masculinity . . . .Fall 2013
* Cinema Journal *
Performing American Masculinities is a good introductory text for studying depictions of masculinities in popular culture. The information and analysis presented in the book are accessible to an interdisciplinary audience . . .17.1 April 2014
* Men and Masculinities *
With a judicious balance between gender theory and pop-cultural readings, Performing American Masculinities offers a diverse and exciting collection suited to a variety of disciplines and projects. The text provides a cogent introduction to masculinities and a specialized focus that marks the potential of masculinity studies through popular culture. RICKI LAKE SHOW
* Journal of Popular Culture *
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson
Part 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes
1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy / C. Wesley Buerkle
2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau
3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin
4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood "Office Movie" / Latham Hunter
Part 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities
5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille
6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson
7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski
8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation / Jimmie Manning
9. "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Real Man?": Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the Politics of the "Real" in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy / Michel J. Boucher
Contributors
Index
