Masculinity

William Friedkin's 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this edited volume accomplishes.

Explores the popular cultural phenomenon of "bromance" in film and television and its oppositions between homosexual and homosocial behavior.

Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory.

Surveys the commercial importance, originality, and cultural relevance of the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos.

Considers the HBO series Deadwood in the context of the television Western genre and the intersection of capital and violence in American history.

Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.

Examines the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of The Honeymooners in the context of postwar American values.

An expanded, updated version of Peter Lehman’s classic text that became the leading source for the study of masculinity, the male body, and sexuality in film.