{"product_id":"performing-american-masculinities-9780253222701","title":"Performing American Masculinities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreating gender on page, stage, and screen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto 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\u003c\/p\u003e * Cinema Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerforming American Masculinities \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003c\/p\u003e * Men and Masculinities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Popular Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture \/ Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes\u003cbr\u003e 1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy \/ C. Wesley Buerkle\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute \/ Brenda Boudreau\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity \/ Margaret C. Ervin\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood \"Office Movie\" \/ Latham Hunter\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities\u003cbr\u003e 5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque \/ John Kille\u003cbr\u003e 6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions \/ Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality \/ Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski\u003cbr\u003e 8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation \/ Jimmie Manning\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49885711991127,"sku":"9780253222701","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253222701.jpg?v=1737915676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performing-american-masculinities-9780253222701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}