Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities Gender, Genre, and Politics

Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Cli

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Susanne Kord and Elisabeth Krimmer

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Gender, Genre, and Politics

contemporary hollywood masculinities Copyright © Susanne Kord and Elisabeth Krimmer, 2011. All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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List of Figures 1 Introduction

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Men in Trouble 2 Lawlessness and Disorder: Cops and Other Serial Killers