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Masked Men - Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (Paperback) Loot Price: R615
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Masked Men - Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (Paperback): Steve Cohan

Masked Men - Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (Paperback)

Steve Cohan

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The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture s thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood s star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female viewers alike. Drawing on publicity, poster art, fan magazines, and the popular press as a means of following the links between fifties stars, their films, and the social tensions of the period, Cohan juxtaposes Hollywood s narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen."

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Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 1997
First published: December 1997
Authors: Steve Cohan
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21127-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
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LSN: 0-253-21127-1
Barcode: 9780253211279

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