ABSTRACT
Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 6|14 pages
Choosing to Be “Not a Man”
Masculine Anxiety in Nouri Bouzid's Rih Essed/Man of Ashes
chapter 9|15 pages
“Emotional Constipation” and the Power of Dammed Masculinity
Deliverance and the Paradoxes of Male Liberation
chapter 10|18 pages
“As a Mother Cuddles a Child”
Sexuality and Masculinity in World War II Combat Films
chapter 11|26 pages
The Nation and the Nude
Colonial Masculinity and the Spectacle of the Male Body in Recent Canadian Cinema(s)
chapter 14|16 pages
“Studs Have Feelings Too”
Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender
