Screening images of American masculinity in the age of postfeminism / edited by Elizabeth Abele and John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco.

Contents Introduction: Liberating American Masculinity / Elizabeth Abele -- Recovering Masculinities. Fashioning Flexibility: Racial Neoliberalism and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity / Michael Litwack -- "Any closer and you'd be Mom": The Limits of Post-Feminist Paternity in the Films of Robin Williams / Katie Barnett -- Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic: The Wrestler and the Demise of American Exceptionalism / John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco -- The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game / Mary T. Hartson -- Masculinities for Men and Women. Subverting the Master's Hero: Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds as a New Kind of Space Cowboy / Laura L. Beadling -- When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl as Role Model or Victim? / Keith Friedlander --- Negotiated Masculinities. "I'm Listening": Analyzing the Masculine Example of Frasier Crane / Dustin Gann -- Hanging With the Boys: Homosocial Bonding and Bromance Coupling in Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal / Pamela Hill Nettleton -- Some Assembly Required: Joss Whedon's Bridging of Masculinities in Marvel Films? The Avengers / Derek S. McGrath -- Loving Anti-Heroes. The Agency of Nostalgia in Mad Men / Maureen McKnight -- "Out Like a Man": Straddling the Postfeminist Fence in Dexter and Breaking Bad / Brenda Boudreau -- Last Men Standing: Will Smith as the Obsolete Patriarchal Male / Elizabeth Abele.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015036516
ISBN9781498525824 (hardcover)

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