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Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture

Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture

Paperback

Series: Policy

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyMen's Studies

ISBN10: 0312126239
ISBN13: 9780312126230
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 25 1995
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us highly complex and ambivalent images of men. The hero turns into the anti-hero; feminine and homoerotic material leak in; the male is often shown as the victim. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studies, such as identification and the relation between subject and text.

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