Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism

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1. Contents No access
2. List of Images No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Ch01. Fashioning Flexibility: Racial Neoliberalism and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity No access
2. Ch02. “Any closer and you’d be Mom”: The Limits of Postfeminist Paternity in the Films of Robin Williams No access
3. Ch03. Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic: The Wrestler and the Demise of American Exceptionalism No access
4. Ch04. The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game? No access
1. Ch5. Subverting the Master’s Hero: Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds as a Feminist-Inflected Space Cowboy No access
2. Ch06. When Eleven-Year-Old Girls Kick-Ass: The Gender Politics of Hit-Girl No access
1. Ch07. “I’m Listening”: Analyzing the Masculine Example of Frasier Crane No access
2. Ch08. Hanging with the Boys: Homosocial Bonding and Heterosexual Bromance Coupling in Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal No access
3. Ch09. Some Assembly Required: Joss Whedon’s Bridging of Masculinities in Marvel Films’ The Avengers No access
1. Ch10. The Falling Man: Nostalgia and Masculinity as Genres of Composure in Mad Men No access
2. Ch11. “Out Like a Man”: Straddling the Postfeminist Fence in Dexter and Breaking Bad No access
3. Ch12. Last Men Standing: Will Smith as the Obsolete Patriarchal Male No access
Index No access Pages 203 - 206
About the Contributors No access Pages 207 - 210