Manly Arts - Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema

Informationen zum Autor David A. Gerstner is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Klappentext Examines the anxieties of class and race and the conflicts between New and Old Worlds that attend the elevation of masculinity as a defining characteristic of early American cinema and visual culture. Zusammenfassung Presents an analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This title reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Nineteenth-Century Formulations of Masculinity and Realism: The Body of Edwin Forrest 1 2. The Battle Cry of Peace and the Spectacle of Realism 51 3. African American Realism: Oscar Micheaux, Autobiography, and the Ambiguity of Black Male Desire 83 4. Manhatta: A National Self-Portrait 119 5. The Queer Frontier: Vincente Minnelli’s Cabin in the Sky 165 Epilogue 212 Notes 215 Bibliography 281 Index 305

Product details

• Authors: David a. Gerstner, Gerstner, David A Gerstner, David A. Gerstner
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2006
• EAN: 9780822337751
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3775-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV