Masked Men

Steven Cohan

ISBN 10: 0253211271 / ISBN 13: 9780253211279

Published by INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Jun 1997, 1997

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Neuware - Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masked Men
• Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Jun 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253211271
• ISBN 13: 9780253211279
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 152H x 28D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female viewers alike. Drawing on publicity, poster art, fan magazines, and the popular press as a means of following the links between fifties stars, their films, and the social tensions of the period, Cohan juxtaposes Hollywood's narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen.

About the Author

Steve Cohan, Professor of English at Syracuse University, is co-author of Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction, co-editor of Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema, and The Road Movie Book. He has also published articles in Camera Obscura, Screen, The Masculine Masquerade, and Stud: Architectures of Masculinity.