Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film [Paperback]

Robert Lang (Author)

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Publication Date: Oct 2 2002 | Series: Film and Culture

Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, arguing that it is an ideological-generic construction and that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on nine films (The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, Batman and Robin, My Own Private Idaho, and Jerry Maguire), Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding and, in arguing for a much more complex notion of a homosocial continuum, reveals that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

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Product Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (Oct 2 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231113013
ISBN-13: 978-0231113014
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.3 x 22.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 544 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,041,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Articulates the big screen's dedication to eroticism between men, especially in movies that now belong to the film canon. Gay & Lesbian Review

About the Author

Robert Lang is associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford.He is the author of American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli, and editor of The Birth of a Nation. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tunis.