Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity
With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil La Bute to the sexual politics of Major League Baseball, this diverse collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations, with essays covering, among other topics, the re-imagining of Asian masculinity in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow and the...
Search in google:
With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil La Bute to the sexual politics of Major League Baseball, this diverse collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations, with essays covering, among other topics, the re-imagining of Asian masculinity in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever-present image of black male buffoonery in the neo-minstrel performances of VH1's Flavor of Love. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity, with essays focusing on popular media representations of men in a variety of gendered roles, from homemakers and househusbands to valorous war heroes and athletic demigods.
Introduction 1Part I Racialized Mediated Performance and Contemporary Masculinity1 The Dilemma of the Italian American Male Marc Dipaolo 132 Patrick Bateman as "Average White Male" in American Psycho Daniel Mudie Cunningham 403 Ambivalence, Desire and the Re-Imagining of Asian American Masculinity in Better Luck Tomorrow Ruthann Lee 514 The Black Interior, Reparations and African American Masculinity in The Wiz Jesse Scott 685 Flavor of Love and the Rise of Neo-Minstrelsy on Reality Television Valerie Palmer-Mehta Alina Haliliuc 856 Jungle Fever: Bold, Beautiful and Unnecessarily Maligned Daryl A. Carter 1067 Celebrity Culture and Racial Masculinities: The Case of Will Smith David Magill 126Part II Contemporary Mediated Performance and the Cultural Politics of Masculinity8 Constructions of Mathematical Masculinities in Popular Culture Marie-Pierre Moreau Heather Mendick Debbie Epstein 1419 Killing Off White Hegemonic Masculinity in Indian Killer Jane E. Rose 15710 Narrative's Role in Constructing Masculinities in We Were Soldiers Bradley Smith 18011 Masculinity and Domesticity in A Home at the End of the World and Househusband Helena Wahlstrom 19612 Anxious Male Domesticity and Gender Troubled Corrections Kristin Jacobson 21613 Neil LaBute's Bodies in Question Marc Shaw 24214 O.J. Simpson: Tabloidized, Sexualized, Racialized and Largely Despised Elwood Watson 25815 Major League Baseball and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality Rachelle Sussman 277About the Contributors 299Index 303
