Screening the Male

Steven Cohan; Ina Rae Hark

ISBN 10: 0415077591 / ISBN 13: 9780415077590

Published by Routledge (edition 1), 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Screening the Male
• Publisher: Routledge (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415077591
• ISBN 13: 9780415077590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory.
Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. Feminist criticism has shown how difficult it is for the female viewer to resist becoming implicated in this representational system. But the theroies have overlooked the significance of the problem itself - of the masuline motivation at the core of the system. The essays here explore those male characters, spectators, and performers who occupy positions conventionally encoded as "feminine" in Hollywood narrative and questions just how secure that orthodox male position is.
Screening the Male brings together an impressive group of both established and emerging scholars from Britain, the United States and Australia unified by a concern with issues that film theorists have exclusively inked to the femninie and not the masculne: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generatonal differences.

About the Author

Steve Cohan, Ina Rae Hark