The Remasculation Film: Themes and Variations

by Miller Adam

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a discourse of masculinity crisis precipitated the appearance of a number of what Susan Jeffords describes as "rearticulations of screen masculinity," which influenced the production of a group of films whose narrative diegeses reaffirmed the heteronormative, hypermasculine fa ade onscreen. These films are identified and defined in this book as remasculation pictures, or narratives that showcase the hero's oscillation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3639701488
• ISBN13: 9783639701487
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"