Old Homes, New Families: Shared Living for the Elderly (Columbia Studies of Social Gerontology & Aging) - Hardcover

Streib, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231056524 ISBN 13: 9780231056526

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men as men in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films -- primarily The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batman series, and Jerry Maguire -- Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum, he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Lang is associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford. He is the author of American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli, and editor of The Birth of a Nation. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tunis.

Review:

"Articulates the big screen's dedication to eroticism between men, especially in movies that now belong to the film canon." -- Gay & Lesbian Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0231056524
• ISBN 13: 9780231056526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336