Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties

by Steven Cohan

Book Overview

The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253211271
• ISBN13: 9780253211279
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher