Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture

337 Pages·1996·23.704 MB·English

by  Paul Smith (editor)

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Boys

CULTURAL STUDIES
Series Editor
Paul Smith) George Mason University
Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture, edited by Paul Smith
The Audience and Its Landscape, edited by James Hay,
Lawrence Grossberg, and Ellen Wartella
Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century,
Maurizia Boscagli
Art and the Committed Eye: Culture, Society, and the Functions of Imagery,
Richard Leppert
Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Culturai Politics of ccYouth in Crisis,))
Charles Acland ·
Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception,
edited by Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis
The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities,
and Cultural Theory, edited by Cathy Schwichtenberg
Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood
Movies, Elizabeth G. Traube
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the
American Dream, Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis
FORTHCOMING
Girls: The Representation of Femininity in Popular pufture,
edited by Elizabeth Ann Kaplan
Being Indian and the Politics of Indianness, Gail Valaskakis

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Contents
Acknowledgments lX
1 Introduction, Paul Smith 1
2 A Buffalo, New York Story, Fred Pfeil 9
3 Father Figure, Danae Clark 23
4 Dinge, Robert Reid-Pharr 39
5 Homo Academicus, John Champagne 49
6 Male Horror: On David Cronenberg, Christine Ramsay 81
7 Telling Differences: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
in The Crying Game, Sharon Willis 97
8 Scattered Speculations on the Value of Harvey Keitel,
Clint Burnham 113
9 Hot Damme! Reflections on Gay Publicity,
Eric Clarke and Mathew Henson 131
10 The Prettiest Postcolonial: Muhammad Ali, Grant Parred 151
11 "Beat me outta me": Alternative Masculinities,
Cynthia Fuchs 171
12 Prosthetic Gender and Universal Intellect:
Stephen Hawking's Law, John Michael 199
13 Conservative Cowboy Stories: Adventures of the
Chosen Sons, Linda Kintz 219
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14 Of Newts and Quayles: National-Political Masculinity
in the Current Conjuncture, Matthew Ruben 255
15 A White Boy Is Being Beaten, Lisa Frank 293
About the Book and Editor 309
About.the Contributors 311
Index 313
Acknowledgments
Masculinity isn't al.ways a pleasant thing to behold, and it's always difficult,
sometimes unpleasant to write about-it's certainly a difficult thing in just
about every respect-so I want to thank all the contributors to this volume
for having been so willing and so assiduous in producing their work. I made
it all the more difficult for them by drawing heavily on their patience and
goodwill, and I thank them all for their continual cooperation. I hope they
had some fun, in any case.
Chapter 2 is reprinted from Fred Pfeil, What They Tell You to For.get
(Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1995). Chapter 4 will appear in a special
issue, edited by Jose Munoz, of the journal Women and Performance.
Paul Smith
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