Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties

by Steven Cohan

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The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0253211271

ISBN13:9780253211279

Release Date:December 1997

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Length:346 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Cultural Humor & Entertainment Men Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movies Performing Arts Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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