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masculinity Previously published in the AFI Film Readers Series edited by Charles Wolfe and Edward Branigan The Persistence of History Vivian Sobchack Classical Hollywood Comedy Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick Disney Discourse Eric Smoodin Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara Film Theory Goes to the Movies Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, and Hilary Radner Theorizing Documentary Michael Renov Sound Theory I Sound Practice Rick Altman Psychoanalysis and Cinema E. Ann Kaplan Fabrications Jane M. Gaines and Charlotte Herzog The Revolution Wasn't Televised Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin Black Women Film and Video Artists Jacqueline Bobo Home, Exile, Homeland Hamid Naficy Violence and American Cinema J. David Slocum masculinity bodies, movies, culture e d i t ed by peter lehman routledge new york and london Published in 2001 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Transferred to Digital Printing 2011 Copyright © 2001 by Routledge Typography: Jack Donner All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Masculinity: bodies, movies, culture / edited by Peter Lehman. p. cm. — (AFI film readers) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92323-9 — ISBN 0-415-92324-7 (pbk.) 1. Men in motion pictures. 2. Machismo in motion pictures. 3. Homosexuality in motion pictures. 4. Masculinity—United States— History—20th century. I. Lehman, Peter. II. Series. PN1995.9.M46M34 2000 791.43'652041 — dc21 00-030827 Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. In Memory of Paul A. Thorn contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Peter Lehman 1. "Someone Is Going to Pay": 7 Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom Krin Gabbard 2. Crying Over the Melodramatic Penis: 25 Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s Peter Lehman 3. The Saviors and the Saved: 43 Masculine Redemption in Contemporary Films Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel 4. Identity, Queerness, and Homosocial Bonding: 51 The Case of Swingers Justin Wyatt 5. Rape Fantasies: 67 Hollywood and Homophobia Joe Wlodarz 6. Choosing to Be "Not a Man": 81 Masculine Anxiety in Nouri Bouzid's Rih Essed/Man of Ashes Robert Lang and Maker Ben Moussa 7. T(he)-Men's Room: 95 Masculinity and Space in Anthony Mann's T-Men Susan White 8. The Talented Poststructuralist: 115 Heteromasculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing Chris Straayer 9. "Emotional Constipation" 133 and the Power of Dammed Masculinity: Deliverance and the Paradoxes of Male Liberation Sally Robinson 10. "As a Mother Cuddles a Child": 149 Sexuality and Masculinity in World War II Combat Films Robert Eberwein 11. The Nation and the Nude: 167 Colonial Masculinity and the Spectacle of the Male Body in Recent Canadian Cinema(s) Lee Parpart 12. Lynching Photography and the "Black Beast Rapist" 193 in the Southern White Masculine Imagination Amy Louise Wood 13. Screening the Italian-American Male 213 Aaron Baker andjuliann Vitullo 14. "Studs Have Feelings Too": 227 Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender Lucia Bozzola 15. James Bond's Penis 243 Toby Miller 16. Oliver Stone's Nixon and the Unmanning 257 of the Self-Made Man Dennis Bingham 17. Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: 279 A Performative Exploration of Men's Bodies Tim Miller Contributors 301 Index 305 acknowledgments First, thanks go to Edward Branigan and Chuck Wolfe for inviting me to propose an anthology for their series. I have great respect for Edward, Chuck, and the series. When they approached me years ago and I proposed a volume on masculinity, the idea was received with what I interpreted as polite disbelief. Sometime later I proposed a vol ume on an unrelated topic only to be asked to do the one on mas culinity. I thank them for their confidence in me as an editor and their willingness to go with the topic. I hope the results justify their confi dence. All of my work on masculinity and the male body owes a spe cial acknowledgment to Susan Hunt. Countless hours of telephone conversation with her (unfortunately counted by the long-distance telephone carrier) have enabled me to clarify my thinking and to ben efit from hers. Finally, everything I publish is indebted to Melanie Magisos for her valuable revision suggestions, and my introduction and essay in this volume are no exception.
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