Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

by Robert Lang

Book Overview

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films--primarily The Lion King...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231113005
• ISBN13: 9780231113007
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher