Masculine Interests

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Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

By:

Robert Lang

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Film and Culture Series

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In the first close look at how Hollywood has reflected and helped shaped masculinity, Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, arguing that it is an ideological-generic construction and that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on nine films (The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, Batman and Robin, My Own Private Idaho, and Jerry Maguire), Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding and, in arguing for a much more complex notion of a homosocial continuum, reveals that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

Author Biography:

Robert Lang is associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford. He is the author of American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli, and editor of The Birth of a Nation. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tunis.

Release date NZ

October 2nd, 2002

Author

Robert Lang

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

59 photos

Pages

384

Series

Film and Culture Series

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780231113014

Product ID

2405394

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