The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female...
The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this e...
Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom, and the representation of race and ethnicity. Includes essays by: Rick Altman, Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca, Carol Clover, Steven Cohan, Richard Dyer, Jane Feuer, Patricia Mellencamp, Linda Mizejewski, Shari Roberts, Pamela Robertson, Michael Rogin, Martin Rubin and Matthew Tinkcom.
Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist an...
Steven Cohan's study ofCSI: Crime Scene Investigationunpacks the show'sfocus onforensic technology; its sophisticatedvisual style; its fascination with subcultures;its relationship with both 'Old' and 'New' Vegas, and the performance of its lead actors, notably William Petersen as Gil Grissom. "
Steven Cohan's study ofCSI: Crime Scene Investigationunpacks the show'sfocus onforensic technology; its sophisticatedvisual style; its fascin...
This new collection addresses the film musical, acentral genrein the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema.Leading international scholarsexplore key issues, traditions, subgenres, stars and filmsof themusical film from the 1930s to the present."
This new collection addresses the film musical, acentral genrein the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and ...
Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This timely study will interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students...
Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Aust...
