About the Author

Murray Pomerance is professor and chair in the department of sociology at Ryerson University. He is co-editor with Frances Gateward of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State University Press, 2002). His other works include An Eye for Hitchcock (Rutgers University Press, 2004) and BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (State University of New York Press, 2004). Frances Gateward teaches courses on film and popular culture in the unit for cinema studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is co-editor with Murray Pomerance of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and also the editor of Zhong Yimou: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2001).

Reviews

[A] fine collection of essays exhibiting first-rate scholarly work. . . . Where the Boys Are will be of interest to film scholars as well as graduate students interested in film, criticism, contemporary culture, and gender studies."--Kevin W. Sweeney "University of Tampa"

As the originality, richness, and diversity of the films treated and the perspectives elaborated testify, Where the Boys Are makes an important contribution, applying recent advances in cultural studies and feminist methodology to a corpus that has not received systematic scrutiny."--Thomas Waugh "Concordia University"

By exploring screen representations of boys, this ambitious collection addresses a little-researched area in gender studies. Given cinema's fascination with boyhood, what does the coming-of-age narrative reveal about the process of becoming a man? The anthology approaches this question in an admirably multifaceted way, analyzing films from different historical eras and nations with attention to the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexuality that make portraits of boyhood so complex and so important to studies of masculinity.--Barbara Klinger "Indiana University"