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Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

Hardcover

Series: Film and Culture

Film StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 0231113005
ISBN13: 9780231113007
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Oct 2 2002
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men as men in the cinema. Using nine Hollywood genre films from 1932 to the late 1990s, Lang shows how Hollywood's chief function to define, codify, valorize and critique varieties of masculinity reveals contradictions with its surface norms of heterosexual masculinity, particularly in those films that cover the troubled terrain of male-male relationships. Despite Hollywood's normative narrative conventions, these films involve a spectrum of primary bonds among men, sexual and nonsexual, conscious and unconscious. Lang questions the way our culture distinguishes between homosexuality and non-homosexual forms of male bonding, and argues for a more complex notion of a homosocial continuum.

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