Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere
during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically
than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging
introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity,
femininity, and places once thought to be "in between." The book
begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of
gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. The
ten essays that follow address a range of topics, including screen
stars; depictions of gay, straight, queer, and transgender
subjects; and the relationship between gender and genre. Widely
respected scholars, including Robert Eberwein, Lucy Fischer, Chris
Holmlund, E. Ann Kaplan, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, David Lugowski,
Patricia Mellencamp, Jerry Mosher, Jacqueline Reich, and Chris
Straayer, focus on the radical ideological advances of contemporary
cinema, as well as on those groundbreaking films that have shaped
our ideas about masculinity and femininity, not only in movies but
in American culture at large. The first comprehensive overview of
the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text
for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion
among students and scholars alike. Krin Gabbard is a professor of
comparative literature and English at SUNY Stony Brook and the
author of Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American
Culture. William Luhr is a professor of English and film at Saint
Peter's College in New Jersey and the coauthor of Thinking About
Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying (Third Edition). A volume
in the Rutgers Depth of Field series, edited by Charles Affron,
Mirella Jona Affron, and Robert Lyons
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