Pimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen : essays on media images of masculinity 9780786443055, 0786443057
This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspect
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English Pages 310 [324] Year 2009
Table of contents :
Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo
Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Ambivalence, desire and the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Better luck tomorrow / Ruthann Lee
The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott
Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy on reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc
Jungle fever : bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl A. Carter
Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: the case of Will Smith / David Magill
Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein
Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose
Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith
Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom
Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson
Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw
O.J. Simpson : tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson
Major League Baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman
