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Product Description: A film archetype as old as film itself, the man-child has been an enduring comedy subject. Classics as diverse as Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) and The Apartment (1960) have used the immature male to drive plots and press the importance of growing up...read more
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9781476662084 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 25, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A film archetype as old as film itself, the man-child has been an enduring comedy subject.
Product Description: The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men. Exploring the birth, growth, and decline of this genre, Bini shows this notable style was the search for a new role in the shattered postwar middle class...read more
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9781137516886 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 10, 2015, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men.
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9781623567477 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 29, 2015, cover price $120.00
9780313229732, titled "The Politics of Hysteria: The Sources of Twentieth-Century Conflict" | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1981, cover price $35.00 | also contains The Politics of Hysteria: The Sources of Twentieth-Century Conflict
Product Description: Swedish society underwent great changes during the first decades of the 1900s and the new consumption and entertainment culture came under fire. Children and youth--but also women and the working classes--become symbols of the forces breaking down traditional structures and values...read more
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9780786494781 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 16, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Swedish society underwent great changes during the first decades of the 1900s and the new consumption and entertainment culture came under fire.
Product Description: Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed consideration of the masculinities that are dominating current Italian cinema, the study addresses the supposed crisis of masculinity...read more
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9781137381460 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 18, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy.
Product Description: Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.; WALL-E; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars; and Up. In nearly all of these films, male characters are prominently featured, usually as protagonists...read more
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9781442233584 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 27, 2014, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.
Product Description: Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths...read more
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9780230338418 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths.
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9781137372833 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 5, 2013), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths.
Product Description: From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory...read more
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9780861967049 | John Libbey & Co Ltd, September 1, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory.
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9781137360809 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 12, 2013, cover price $105.00
Product Description: Masculinity and Film Performance is a lively and engaging study of the complex relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen, focusing on the performance of "male angst" in American film and popular culture during the 1990s and 2000s...read more
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9780230283787 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2011, cover price $100.00
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9781137337726 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 8, 2013), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Masculinity and Film Performance is a lively and engaging study of the complex relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen, focusing on the performance of "male angst" in American film and popular culture during the 1990s and 2000s.
Product Description: Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen...read more
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9780230232006 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 7, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.
Product Description: In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor Timothy Shary collects fourteen contributions that consider male representation in films made at the turn of the century to explore precisely how those questions have been dealt with in cinema...read more
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9780814334355 | Wayne State Univ Pr, December 17, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves.
Product Description: This work analyzes popular films produced in the years of significant historical change from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. Although the American middle class expanded significantly with the economic prosperity that followed World War II, postwar films often depict middle-class men as discontented with the mundane nature of work and with declining autonomy in an increasingly corporate-bureaucratic society...read more
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9780786469918 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 3, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This work analyzes popular films produced in the years of significant historical change from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century.
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9780230338180 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model.
Product Description: Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day...read more
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9780786461622 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 1, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate.
Product Description: In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things, including the human need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of family structures, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love...read more
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9780786461608 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 29, 2010, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity.
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9780810881143 | Scarecrow Pr, April 18, 2011, cover price $55.00
Product Description: Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - how Western masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - and how generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender...read more
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9781847015211, titled "Men in African Film & Fiction" | James Currey Ltd, February 17, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings.
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9780313229732 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1981, cover price $35.00 | also contains Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television: Film, Fiction, and Television
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