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Extra-Ordinary Men
White Heterosexual Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Cinema
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2010
Summary
Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2482-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3342-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
281
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
1: Losing Ground: Representations of White Male Disenfranchisement in Anglo-American Popular Cinema No access
2: Literalizing the Wound: Paternal Melodramas, Masochism, and White Heterosexual Masculinity in Popular U.S. Cinema No access
3: Fleshing Out White Heterosexual Masculinity: The Objectified and Commodified White Male Body No access
4: Terminal Bodies and Cartesian Trips: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Cyberfantasies No access
5: Queering White Heterosexual Masculinity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Cinema No access
6: White Skin, Black Masks? Male "Wiggers" in Contemporary Popular Cinema No access
7: White Male Violence in Quentin Tarantino's Gangster Films No access
8: Everyman and No Man: White Masculinity in Contemporary Serial Killer Movies No access
