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Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral SociologyMen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438460074
ISBN13: 9781438460079
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation

Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey's and Gilles Deleuze's paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher film Scream to bromances and beta male comedies such as I Love You, Man to dramas such as Donnie Darko and 25th Hour to Rob Zombie's remake of the horror film Halloween. Greven also traces the disturbing connections between torture porn found in such films as Hostel and gay male Internet pornography.

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