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This book explores models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema and intersections between ecomasculinities and other counter-hegemonic practices of manhood.
List of contents
Introduction: Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction
Stefan L. Brandt & Rubén Cenamor
Part I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities
1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary Imagination
Stefan L. Brandt
2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement
Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman
3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siècle Literature
Alessandra Calanchi
Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s
4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s' America
Rubén Cenamor
5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity's Rainbow
Victoria Addis
6. Cormac McCarthy's Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape
Layla Hendow
7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley's Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres
Teresa Requena
Part III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media
8. The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves the Planet (and this Time It is for Real)
Virginia Luzón
9. True Detective: Not Flourishing yet, but Maybe Germinating.
Bill Phillips
10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American Masculinity
Evangeline M. Heiliger
About the Contributors
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Edited by Rubén Cenamor and Stefan Brandt - Contributions by Victoria Addis; Alessa Calanchi; Layla Hendow; Evangeline Heiliger; Bill Phillips; Teresa Requena Pelegrí; Virginia Luzón-Aguado; Martin Hultman; Rubén Cenamor and Stefan Brandt
Summary
This book explores models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema and intersections between ecomasculinities and other counter-hegemonic practices of manhood.
