Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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.
წელი:
2003
გამომცემლობა:
State University of New York Press
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
218
ISBN 10:
1417524049
ISBN 13:
9781417524044
სერია:
Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video
ფაილი:
PDF, 4.70 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003