Masculine Interests - Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

Informationen zum Autor Robert Lang Klappentext Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms! maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity! and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films -- primarily The Lion King! The Most Dangerous Game! The Outlaw! Kiss Me Deadly! Midnight Cowboy! Innerspace! My Own Private Idaho! the Batman series! and Jerry Maguire -- Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum! he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged. Zusammenfassung This title considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. It also examines how Hollywood has both reflected and helped to shape the concept of masculinity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Masculine InterestsOedipus in Africa: The Lion KingTo "Have Known Ecstasy": Hunting Men in The Most Dangerous GameFriendship and Its Discontents: The OutlawLooking for the "Great Whatsit": Kiss Me Deadly and Film Noir Midnight Cowboy's Backstory Innerspace: A Spectacular Voyage to the Heart of IdentityBatman and Robin: A Family Romance My Own Private Idaho and the New Queer Road Movies"The Things We Think and Do Not Say": Jerry Maguire and the Business of Personal RelationshipsConcerning Happiness: An Afterword

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lang, Lang Robert
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2002
• EAN: 9780231113014
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11301-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: men and boys, Film Theory & Criticism, Gender Studies: Men, Film history, theory or criticism