In "You Tarzan", the editors set out to broaden the enquiry into masculinity, taking popular cinema as their starting point. A number of male film scholars have been invited to turn the spotlight back on themselves; to name the "un-named" feelings raised by films, stars or genres as well as importing some of the insights of feminist writing on gender to an analysis of the construction and reading of masculinity in films. Studies range from the gridiron jocks of the Hollywood sports feature, to the elegant heroes in ...
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In "You Tarzan", the editors set out to broaden the enquiry into masculinity, taking popular cinema as their starting point. A number of male film scholars have been invited to turn the spotlight back on themselves; to name the "un-named" feelings raised by films, stars or genres as well as importing some of the insights of feminist writing on gender to an analysis of the construction and reading of masculinity in films. Studies range from the gridiron jocks of the Hollywood sports feature, to the elegant heroes in successive versions of "The Thirty-Nine Steps". Essays on horror and the question of male masochism and pleasure rub shoulders with others on masculinity in the films of the Vietnam war, and comedy, camp and gay men in this collection which puts forward new and more complex theories of male spectatorship. Pat Kirkham is the author of "Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the 20th Century". Janet Thumim is the author of "Celluloid Sisters: Women in Popular Cinema".
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Minor wear. Name inside front cover. VG. 21x14cm, PAPERBACK. Contents: You Tarzan / Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim--Rock: the last guy you'd have figured / Richard Dyer--Clarke Gable's balls: real men never lose their teeth / Joe Fisher--The historical and hysterical: melodrama, war and masculinity in Dead poets society / Mike Hammond--What are big boys made of: Spartacus, El Cid and the male epic / Leon Hunt--Masculinity and the horror film / Peter Hutchings--"It's as a man that you've failed": masculinity and forbidden desire in The Spanish gardener /Andy Medhurst--Tracking the sign of Tarzan: trans-media representation of a pop-culture icon / Walt Morton--'Do you walk the walk? ': aspects of masculinity in some Vietnam War films / John Newsinger--Going solo: performance and identity in New York, New York, and Taxi driver / Ken Page--One last chance: masculinity, ethnicity and the Greek Cypriot community of London / Panikos Panayi--One hundred and seventeen steps towards masculinity / Tom Ryall--Blood, sweat and tears: Amitabh Bachchan, urban demi-god / Ashwani Sharma--The invisible man: shrinking masculinity in the 1950s science fiction B-movie / Paul Wells--No room for uncertainty: gridiron masculinity in North Dallas forty / Garry Whannel.