Straight - Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema

Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.
straight / 'strāt (adj.)... without curves... correct... honest... not deviating from the normal... conventional... Heterosexual
Practically all mainstream cinema is "straight," and has been since its inception. In Straight, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores how heterosexual performativity has been constructed in film, from early cinema to the present day. In addition to discussing how cinematic visions of masculine and feminine desire have been commodified and sold to reinforce existing societal constructs, Dixon also documents the recent emergence of "hypermasculinity," a kinetic and exaggerated masculinity that has been created to counter the more gentle, thoughtful male portrayed in While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, and other films that seemingly threaten the established order of patriarchal cinematic discourse.

Info autore

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, coeditor in chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. His many books include The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image; The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; and The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image, all published by SUNY Press; and Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wheeler W. Dixon, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Dixon Wheeler Winston
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2003
• EAN: 9780791456248
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5624-8
• Pagine: 218
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 227 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video; Suny Series, Cultural Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism