This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity through a study of American popular culture at the turn of the millennium and beyond, examining possibilities for identity formation for men in the U.S. Each chapter mines American popular culture-theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events-to posit questions about the process of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing political forms. The first section explores masculinities within late capitalism and includes studies of Seinfeld and…mehr
This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity through a study of American popular culture at the turn of the millennium and beyond, examining possibilities for identity formation for men in the U.S. Each chapter mines American popular culture-theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events-to posit questions about the process of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing political forms. The first section explores masculinities within late capitalism and includes studies of Seinfeld and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; the second section addresses identity when masculinity intersects with race, religion, dis/ability, and sexuality, including chapters on Obama, the O.J. trial, reality television, and Spielberg's Amistad.
Elwood Watson is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is author of Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy after Brown v. Board. Marc E. Shaw is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Hartwick College. His recent publications include contributions to the book Twilight and Philosophy.
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Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson Part 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes 1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy / C. Wesley Buerkle 2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau 3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin 4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood "Office Movie" / Latham Hunter Part 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities 5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille 6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson 7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski 8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation / Jimmie Manning 9. "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Real Man?": Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the Politics of the "Real" in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy / Michel J. Boucher Contributors Index
Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson Part 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes 1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy / C. Wesley Buerkle 2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau 3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin 4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood "Office Movie" / Latham Hunter Part 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities 5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille 6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson 7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski 8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation / Jimmie Manning 9. "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Real Man?": Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the Politics of the "Real" in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy / Michel J. Boucher Contributors Index
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