Male Beauty - Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Krauss is Associate Professor of Drama at The College of Saint Rose. His books include The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comédie sans Tickets, also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as men-many of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as "manly"-extended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kenneth Krauss, Krauss Kenneth
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.01.2015
• EAN: 9781438450001
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5000-1
• Pagine: 366
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), LGBTQ+ Studies / topics