Male trouble /
The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1993
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| Series: | Camera obscura book.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Constance Penley and Sharon Willis
- Per os(cillation) / Parveen Adams
- Fellowdrama / Ray Barrie (with introduction by Mark Cousins)
- Masochism and male subjectivity / Kaja Silverman
- Male hysteria and early cinema / Lynne Kirby
- Male narcissism and national culture : subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children / Rey Chow
- The cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee : consumerism and sexual terror / Constance Penley
- The Playhouse of the signifier : reading Pee-wee Herman / Ian Balfour
- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-wee / Henry Jenkins III
- The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes : queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world / Alexander Doty
- Masquerading as the American male in the fifties : Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film / Steven Cohan
- "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton
- Disputed territories : masculinity and social space / Sharon Willis
- Melodrama, masculinity, and the family : thirtysomething as therapy / Sasha Torres.
