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Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema

Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema

Dixon, Wheeler Winston

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791456242
ISBN13: 9780791456248
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 1 2003
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.86 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

straight / 'strāt (adj.)... without curves... correct... honest... not deviating from the normal... conventional... Heterosexual

Practically all mainstream cinema is straight, and has been since its inception. In Straight, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores how heterosexual performativity has been constructed in film, from early cinema to the present day. In addition to discussing how cinematic visions of masculine and feminine desire have been commodified and sold to reinforce existing societal constructs, Dixon also documents the recent emergence of hypermasculinity, a kinetic and exaggerated masculinity that has been created to counter the more gentle, thoughtful male portrayed in While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, and other films that seemingly threaten the established order of patriarchal cinematic discourse.

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