Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films
In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness a
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Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films
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Global Masculinities
Michael Kimmel is a professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including: Men’s Lives, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, The Gendered Society, The Politics of Manhood, and Manhood in America: A Cultural History. He edits Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, and edited the Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities and the Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. He consults with corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and public-sector organizations all over the world on gender equity issues, including work–family balance, reducing workplace discrimination, and promoting diversity. Judith Kegan Gardiner is a professor of English and of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books are Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson’s Poetry and Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy. She is the editor of the volumes Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice and Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory, and a coeditor of The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. She is also a member of the editorial board for the interdisciplinary journal Feminist Studies. Published by Palgrave Macmillan: Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism By Daniel Worden Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men’s Practices Edited by Elisabetta Ruspini, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present Edited by Stefan Horlacher Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815 By Jason D. Solinger The History of Fatherhood in Norway, 1850–2012 By Jørgen Ludvig Lorentzen Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films By Kirk Combe and Brenda Boyle
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