Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

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Wayne State University Press, Jan 18, 2005 - Performing Arts - 440 pages
A provocative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of boys’ identity in modern cinema.
 

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Contents

Archetypes and Facades
9
Bonds and Beatifications
13
Gendered Conflict
21
CrossGender Masquerade
41
Contending with the Fat
61
Southern Boys
83
Larry Clark
98
Mark Lester and Oliver
114
Francois Truffaut
217
Gus Van Sants My Own Private Idaho
233
Counting on Ghosts Sending Smoke
246
Homosocial Bonding Practices
264
Struggles and Redefinitions
277
Cinematic Solutions to the Truancy Trend
297
The Feminization and Victimization of the African
333
Dissolving the Male Child
350

The ManBoys of Steven Spielberg
133
Teenage Boys
157
Boyhood
183
Visions
203
The Terrible Trials
377
Contributors
395
Index
401
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Where the Boys are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
Murray Pomerance,Frances K. Gateward
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About the author (2005)

Murray Pomerance is professor and chair in the department of sociology at Ryerson University. He is co-editor with Frances Gateward of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State University Press, 2002). His other works include An Eye for Hitchcock (Rutgers University Press, 2004) and BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen (State University of New York Press, 2004).Frances Gateward teaches courses on film and popular culture in the unit for cinema studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is co-editor with Murray Pomerance of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and also the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2001).

Bibliographic information

TitleWhere the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
Contemporary Film & Media Studies
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
AuthorMurray Pomerance
EditorsMurray Pomerance, Frances Gateward
PublisherWayne State University Press, 2005
ISBN0814336663, 9780814336663
Length440 pages
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