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Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television (Hardcover)
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While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study
within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural
studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising
that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of
the century has yet to emerge. Professor Brian Baker, evolving from
his previous work Masculinities in Fiction and Film: Representing
Men in Popular Genres 1945-2000, intervenes to rectify the
scholarship in the field to produce a wide-ranging, readable text
that deals with films and other texts produced since the year 2000.
Focusing on representations of masculinity in cinema, popular
fiction and television from the period 2000-2010, he argues that
dominant forms of masculinity in Britain and the United States have
become increasingly informed by anxiety, trauma and loss, and this
has resulted in both narratives that reflect that trauma and others
which attempt to return to a more complete and heroic form of
masculinity. While focusing on a range of popular genres, such as
Bond films, war movies, science fiction and the Gothic, the work
places close analyses of individual films and texts in their
cultural and historical contexts, arguing for the importance of
these popular fictions in diagnosing how contemporary Britain and
the United States understand themselves and their changing role in
the world through the representation of men, fully recognising the
issues of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age. Baker draws
upon current work in mobility studies and in the study of
masculinities to produce the first book-length comparative study of
masculinity in popular culture of the first decade of the
twenty-first century.
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