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"This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity"--Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
318

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Pimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen: essays on media images of masculinity
2009, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, McFarland, McFarland & Co.
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Table of Contents

Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo
Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Ambivalence, desire and the re-Imagining of Asian masculinity in Better luck Tomorrow / Ruthann Lee
The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott
Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy in reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc
Bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl Carter
Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: The case of Will Smith / David Magill
Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein
Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose
Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith
Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom
Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson / Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw
O.J. Simpson: tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson
Major league baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Jefferson, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/6521
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.M34 P56 2009, PN1995.9.M34P56 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
318

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23213463M
Internet Archive
pimpswimpsstudst0000unse
ISBN 13
9780786443055
LCCN
2009016891
OCLC/WorldCat
318421136

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