Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema

By Steven; Hark Cohan

Book Overview

A series of essays from an impressive group of international scholars re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415077591
• ISBN13: 9780415077590
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Exploring the subjected male figure in films

For anyone who ever took a film course, we are taught via the writings of Laura Mulvey that it is the women who is subjected in film. Screening the Male provides the research conducted in examining the filp side of Mulvey's theory. This book is extremely valuable for anyone who is interested in how men are present in film.