Running Scared responds to the absence of critical attention to
male sexuality in film by bringing representations of phallic
masculinity into the spotlight. In his analysis of films, novels,
paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter
Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male
body-and especially male genitals-out of sight. Lehman documents
the pervasive anxiety underlying images of the male body, arguing
that attempts to keep male sexuality hidden in the pursuit of "good
taste" and an avoidance of perversion maintains the "male mystique"
and preserves the power of the phallus. Lehman examines
representations of the male body and male sexuality in a variety of
settings and through many different lenses. Among the films he
analyzes are Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo; Scarlet Street;
feral child films The Wild Child, Kaspar House, and Greystoke; and
Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses. In these works, Lehman
explores the symbolic enculturation of males, assumptions about
power and the male body, and the ways that men's and women's bodies
are marked differently with regard to scarring, wounding, and
aging. In addition to film, Lehman also considers such varied
material as Jim Thompson's noir novel The Nothing Man, sexology and
medical representations of male sexuality, the video Dick Talk,
penis jokes in Hollywood films of the 1970s and 1980s, and popular
music by Roy Orbison. This edition of Running Scared also includes
a new chapter on male nudity in the films of the 1990s, adding
fresh analysis to this classic text. An updated preface situates
the book within the current critical climate. Scholars of film
studies, cultural studies, and gender studies and general readers
interested in representations of gender and sexuality will
appreciate this valuable text.
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