Masculine interests
homoerotics in Hollywood films
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Author
Publication
2002 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
95,250 words, Guess
Page Count
381 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3560609M
- ISBN-100231113005
- OCLC Control Number49250040
- OCLC Control Number51311737
- Library of Congress Control Number2002024705
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1631751
- Goodreads485712
Classifications
- DDC791.43/653
- LCCPN1995.9.H55 L37 2002
Description
Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Using nine Hollywood genre films from 1932 to the late 1990s, Lang shows how Hollywood's chief function to define, codify, valorize and critique varieties of masculinity reveals contradictions with its surface norms of heterosexual masculinity, particularly in those films that cover the troubled terrain of male-male relationships. Despite Hollywood's normative narrative conventions, these films involve a spectrum of primary bonds among men, sexual and nonsexual, conscious and unconscious. Lang questions the way our culture distinguishes between homosexuality and non-homosexual forms of male bonding, and argues for a more complex notion of a homosocial continuum.
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Topics
Series Statement
- Film and culture
Other Editions
- Masculine interests: homoerotics in Hollywood films
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