Lang Masculine Interests

Homoerotics in Hollywood Film
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-50543-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films—primarily The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batman series, and Jerry Maguire—Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum, he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Masculine Interests
2. Oedipus in Africa: The Lion King
3. To "Have Known Ecstasy": Hunting Men in The Most Dangerous Game
4, Friendship and Its Discontents: The Outlaw
5. Looking for the "Great Whatsit": Kiss Me Deadly and Film Noir
6. Midnight Cowboy's Backstory
7. Innerspace: A Spectacular Voyage to the Heart of Identity
8. Batman and Robin: A Family Romance
9. My Own Private Idaho and the New Queer Road Movies
10. "The Things We Think and Do Not Say": Jerry Maguire and the Business of Personal Relationships
Concerning Happiness: An Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Lang is associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford. He is the author of American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli, and editor of The Birth of a Nation. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tunis.