Male trouble
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Male trouble
（A camera obscura book）
University of Minnesota Press, c1993
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
"Male Trouble" begins with the premise that "masculinity" is a troubled concept both historically and theoretically, one that needs exploration of its ambiguous status and its relation to feminism. Under the pressures of feminism, gay politics, and the AIDS crisis, and its political and cultural ramifications, masculinity as a construct is in a state of flux. In response to these changes, the popular media have come up with a variety of images of contemporary masculinity that, according to the editors, seem particularly organized around hysteria and masochism. In "Male Trouble", Penley and Willis insist that there are many masculinities and that what is monolithically described as male sexuality is in fact far more complicated. The essays in "Male Trouble" address this "troubled" masculinity through a wide range of voices and methods, from psychoanalysis to Marxism, sociology to deconstruction, from close readings of various texts to art history.
In detailed and provocative examinations of contemporary images of masculinity, including Pee-wee Herman and the characters of "thirtysomething", and in essays on the American male of the 1950s, the contributors have provided a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today. Constance Penley is the author of "The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis" (Minnesota, 1989); editor of "Feminism and Film Theory"; and co-editor (with Andrew Ross) of "Technoculture" (Minnesota, 1991) and (with Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, and Janet Bergstrom) of "Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction" (Minnesota, 1991). Sharon Willis is the author of "Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body". This book is intended for students and academics in the fields of media studies, gay and lesbian studies, women's studies.
Table of Contents
- Per os(cillation), Parveen Adarns
- Fellowdrama, Ray Barrie
- Masochism and male subjectivity, Kaja Silvennan
- Male hysteria and early cinema, Lynne Kirby
- Male narcissism and national culture - subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children Rey Chow Dossier on Pee-wee's playhouse The cabinet of Dr Pee-wee - consumerism and sexual terror, Constance Penley
- The playhouse of the signifier - reading Pee-wee, Herman Ian Balfour
- "Going bonkers!" - children, play, and Pee-wee, Henry Jenkins III
- The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes - queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world, Alexander Doty
- Masquerading as the American male in the fifties - Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film, Steven Cohan
- "Crisscross" - paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train Sabrina Barton
- Disputed territories - masculinity and social space, Sharon Willis
- Melodrama, masculinity, and the family - thirtysomething as therapy, Sasha Torres.
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