Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

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Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction I. Performing Masculinity 1. Adam Sandler, an Apologia: Anger, Arrested Adolescence, Amour Fou 2. ￢ﾀﾜPolitics Is Theater￢ﾀﾝ: Performance, Sexuality, and Milk 3. Feelings and Firefights: Gendered Performance in Cop Action Climaxes II. Patriarchal Problems 4. ￢ﾀﾜI￢ﾀﾙd Fight My Dad￢ﾀﾝ: Absent Fathers and Mediated Masculinities in Fight Club 5. ￢ﾀﾜBecause I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One￢ﾀﾝ: Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the ￢ﾀﾜCrisis￢ﾀﾝ of the Patriarch 6. Allegory of Deliverance: Class and Gender in Scorsese￢ﾀﾙs Bringing Out the Dead 7. American Psycho Family Values: Conservative Cinema and the New Travis Bickles III. Exceptional Sexualities 8. Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain 9. More than Buddies: Wedding Crashers and the Bromance as Comedy of (Re)Marriage Equality 10. The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman IV. Facing Race 11. Inside Men: Black Masculinity in the Films of Spike Lee and John Singleton 12. Legendary Troubles: Trauma, Masculinity, and Race in I Am Legend 13. Male Style and Race in the Neoretro Heist Film 14. Flexible Masculinities and the Rush Hour Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood Appendix: U.S. Films since 1990 Addressing Masculinity Bibliography Contributors Index