Review
"Writing with clarity and conviction, Lehman has published an essential text for anyone interested in the study of masculinity and its depictions." --Film Quarterly "Lehman makes a major contribution to the fields of film and cultural studies. While the past two decades have been dominated by attention to the area of women's studies and the female body, this is one of the first books to focus on masculinity and the male body." --Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh "Running Scared reveals how the male body image is marked with masculinity (and femininity), how its physiques, scars, injuries and actions carry meaning within a nexus of language, image, power, and sexuality. The Western hero, the tragic gangster, the feral child, and endowed porn star, the emasculated veteran, the sexologist's model, the joker and the butt of the joke compose a clenched masculinity in which Lehman uncovers vulnerability, lack and aching desire. Lehman's perceptive and provocative analysis exhibit a passionate scholarship with self-interrogation." --Chris Straayer, New York University
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Book Description
Shuns cultural taboos and analyzes representations of phallic masculinity--novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos--in order to record the anxiety that underlies images of the male body.
