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001 2009016891
003 DLC
005 20110507082510.0
008 090427s2009 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009016891
020 $a9780786443055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0786443057
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn318421136
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050 00 $aPN1995.9.M34$bP56 2009
082 00 $a791.43/6521$222
245 00 $aPimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen :$bessays on media images of masculinity /$cedited by Elwood Watson.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 310 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRacialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo -- Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Ambivalence, desire and the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Better luck tomorrow / Ruthann Lee -- The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott -- Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy on reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc -- Jungle fever : bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl A. Carter -- Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: the case of Will Smith / David Magill -- Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein -- Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose -- Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith -- Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom -- Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson -- Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw -- O.J. Simpson : tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson -- Major League Baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman.
650 0 $aMasculinity in motion pictures.
650 0 $aMasculinity on television.
650 0 $aMasculinity in popular culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMasculinity$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMasculinity$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
700 1 $aWatson, Elwood.