{"product_id":"performing-american-masculinities-the-21st-century-man-in-popular-culture-paperback-softback-9780253222701","title":"Performing American Masculinities; The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253222701","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerforming American Masculinities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElwood Watson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253222701\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This overview of turn-of-the-millennium sexual identities examines the contradictions and instabilities inherent in latter-day American masculinity as evidenced in pop culture. Watson (history, African American studies, and gender studies, East Tennessee State Univ.) and Shaw (theater arts, Hartwick College) have assembled nine timely essays that cover a range of cultural touchstones and phenomena. The Geico cavemen in the insurance company's ads, Dr. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy, the sitcom Seinfeld, O. J. Simpson, metrosexuals, and Barack Obama all receive extended and thoughtful critiques. The volume touches on age-old barometers of masculine identity—including film, advertising, capitalism, and presidential campaigns—but also highlights more typically 21st-century indicators and influences, for example, viral videos and reality television dating shows. By stressing masculinity's flexibility and ephemerality, the collection succeeds in puncturing what one author describes as 'the inflated notions of sexuality and the \"true self.\"' A fine contribution to contemporary gender criticism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. —Choice\"—W. Edwards, Longwood University, October 2011\u003cbr\u003e \"This overview of turn-of-the-millennium sexual identities examines the contradictions and instabilities inherent in latter-day American masculinity as evidenced in pop culture. ... A fine contribution to contemporary gender criticism. ...Highly recommended.October 2011\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Into this [cultural studies] minefield, 'Performing American Masculinities' steps and, given its expansive scope of inquiry (ranging from Seinfeld [NBC, 1989–1998] to Obama), attempts to cover a lot of ground. An admirable . . . ambition to map representational through-lines across textual forms and to address both fictional performances and real embodiments of American masculinity . . . .Fall 2013\"—\u003ci\u003eCinema Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePerforming American Masculinities \u003c\/i\u003eis a good introductory text for studying depictions of masculinities in popular culture. The information and analysis presented in the book are accessible to an interdisciplinary audience . . .17.1 April 2014\"—\u003ci\u003eMen and Masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"With a judicious balance between gender theory and pop-cultural readings, Performing American Masculinities offers a diverse and exciting collection suited to a variety of disciplines and projects. The text provides a cogent introduction to masculinities and a specialized focus that marks the potential of masculinity studies through popular culture. RICKI LAKE SHOW\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Shaw and Watson have assembled a collection in which well-known cultural artifacts—the OJ trial Seinfeld, metrosexuality and Barack Obama, among others—are reconsidered in the light of gender studies. The result is fresh and bold, enabling us to see these events and images in a new light.\"—Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America\u003cbr\u003e \"Performing American Masculinities focuses usefully on a range of specific anxieties related to masculinity, including those created by differences of race and sexuality, as well as of non-normative gender subjectivities.\"—David Buchbinder, \u003ci\u003eCurtin University of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular culture—theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events—to pose questions about the process of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing political forms. The first section explores masculinities within late capitalism and includes studies of \u003ci\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQueer Eye for the Straight Guy, \u003c\/i\u003eand reality television\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e The second section addresses identity when masculinity intersects with race, religion, disability, and sexuality, including chapters on Barack Obama, the O.J. trial, and popular movies\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture \/ Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes\u003cbr\u003e 1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy \/ C. Wesley Buerkle\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute \/ Brenda Boudreau\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity \/ Margaret C. Ervin\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood \"Office Movie\" \/ Latham Hunter\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities\u003cbr\u003e 5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque \/ John Kille\u003cbr\u003e 6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions \/ Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality \/ Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski\u003cbr\u003e 8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation \/ Jimmie Manning\u003cbr\u003e 9. \"Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Real Man?\": Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the Politics of the \"Real\" in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy \/ Michel J. Boucher\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52526019215640,"sku":"9780253222701","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/performing-american-masculinities-the-21st-century-man-in-popular-culture-paperback-softback-9780253222701","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}