Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction, Peter Lehman; 1. Someone is Going to Pay: Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom, Krin Gabbard; 2. Crying Over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s, Peter Lehman; 3. The Saviors and the Saved: Masculine Redemption in Contemporary Films, Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel; 4. Identity, Queerness and Homosocial Bonding: The Case of Swingers, Justin Wyatt; 5. Rape Fantasies: Hollywood and Homophobia, Joe Wlodarz; 6. Choosing to Be Not a Man: Masculine Anxiety in Nouri Bouzid's Rih Essed/Man of Ashes, Robert Lang and Maher Ben Moussa; 7. T(he)-Men's Room: Masculinity and Space in Anthony Mann's T-Men, Susan White; 8. The Talented Poststructuralist: Heteromasculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing, Chris Straayer; 9. Emotional Constipation and the Power of Dammed Masculinity: Deliverance and the Paradoxes of Male Liberation, Sally Robinson; 10. As a Mother Cuddles a Child: Sexuality and Masculinity in World War II Combat Films, Robert Eberwein; 11. The Nation and the Nude: Colonial Masculinity and the Spectacle of the Male Body in Recent Canadian Cinema(s), Lee Parpart; 12. Lynching Photography and the Black Beast Rapist in the Southern White Masculine Imagination, Amy Louise Wood; 13. Screening the Italian-American Male, Aaron Baker and Juliann Vitullo; 14. Studs Have Feelings Too: Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender, Lucia Bozzola; 15. James Bond's Penis, Toby Miller; 16. Oliver Stone's Nixon and the Unmanning of the Self-Made Man, Dennis Bingham; 17. Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: A Performative Exploration of Men's Bodies, Tim Miller; Contributors; Index

About the Author

Peter Lehman is Professor at Arizona State University at Tempe. He is the editor of Defining Cinema (1997) and the author of Running Scared: Masculinity and theRepresentation of the Male Body (1993).

Reviews

"...Lehman offers us a fascinating menu of how notions of masculinity are fabricated and maintained." -- VillageVoice