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Title:
Pimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen : essays on media images of masculinity / edited by Elwood Watson.
Publisher:
McFarland & Co.,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
viii, 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Masculinity on television.
Masculinity in popular culture--United States.
Mass media and culture--United States.
Masculinity--Social aspects--United States.
Masculinity--Political aspects--United States.
Other Authors:
Watson, Elwood.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity -- The dilemma of the Italian American male -- Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho -- Ambivalence, desire and the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Better luck tomorrow -- The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz -- Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy on reality television -- Jungle fever : bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned -- Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: the case of Will Smith -- Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity -- Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture -- Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer -- Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers -- Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" -- Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections -- Neil LaBute's Bodies in question -- O.J. Simpson : tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised -- Major League Baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality.
ISBN:
0786443057
9780786443055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)318421136
LCCN:
2009016891
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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