Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body

ISBN-13: 9780814333396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 296 str.

Peter Lehman

Opis

Running Scared responds to the absence of critical attention to male sexuality in film by bringing representations of phallic masculinity into the spotlight. In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body - and especially male genitals - out of sight. Lehman documents the pervasive anxiety underlying images of the male body, arguing that attempts to keep male sexuality hidden in the pursuit of good taste and an avoidance of perversion maintains the male mystique and preserves the power of the phallus. Lehman examines representations of the male body and male sexuality in a variety of settings and through many different lenses. Among the films, he analyzes are Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo; Scarlet Street; feral child films The Wild Child, Kaspar House, and Greystroke; and Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.