Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History, Biddle

Автор: Wooden Shannon R., Gillam Ken
Название: Pixar`s Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age
ISBN: 1442233583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442233584
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.; WALL-E; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars; and Up. In nearly all of these films, male characters are prominently featured, usually as protagonists. Despite obvious surface differences, these figures often follow similar narratives toward domestic fulfillment and civic engagement. However, these characters are also hypermasculine types whose paths lead to postmodern social roles more revelatory of the current crisis that sociologists and others have noted in boy culture. In Pixar s Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age, Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam examine how boys become men and how men measure up in films produced by the animation giant. Offering counterintuitive readings of boy culture, this book describes how the films quietly but forcefully reiterate traditional masculine norms in terms of what they praise and what they condemn. Whether toys or ants, monsters or cars, Pixar s males succeed or fail according to the boy code, the relentlessly policed gender standards rampant in American boyhood. Structured thematically around major issues in contemporary boy culture, the book discusses conformity, hypermasculinity, social hierarchies, disability, bullying, and an implicit critique of postmodern parenting. Unprecedented in its focus on Pixar and boys in its films, this book offers a much-needed perspective to current conversations about gender and cinema. Providing a critical discourse about masculine roles in animated features, Pixar s Boy Stories will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and gender studies and to parents.

Автор: Fanetti Susan
Название: Bonds of Brotherhood in Sons of Anarchy: Essays on Masculinity in the Fx Series
ISBN: 1476671915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476671918
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: One of the FX network`s most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the scene in September 2008 and dominated FX`s programming for seven seasons. This collection includes a robust array of scholarly perspectives on Sons of Anarchy`s complicated presentation of masculinity and the cultural implications thereof.

Автор: Barber Kristen
Название: Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men`s Grooming Industry
ISBN: 0813565529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565521
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men's beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men's salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos.  Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.  

Автор: Hartson, Mary T.
Название: Casting masculinity in spanish film
ISBN: 1498537111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498537117
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of consumerism in Spain and, through an analysis of over 60 films, and shows how the hegemonic masculine models presented reflect and promote particular social, political, and economic exigencies.

Автор: Stevens
Название: Captain America, Masculinity, And Violence
ISBN: 0815633955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815633952
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America`s fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. Stevens outlines the history of Captain America`s adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America`s varying political culture.

Автор: Thomas
Название: Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory
ISBN: 0230600085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230600089
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

Автор: Holohan
Название: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture
ISBN: 113730023X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137300232
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger`s Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.

Автор: Davison Neil R.
Название: Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern
ISBN: 1138878499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138878495
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these authors, Davison demonstrates how religious-based prejudices as well as doctrinal Judaic concepts were sustained in the discourse of race and gender surrounding "the Jew." The project engages a dynamic composed of the historically constitutive Jewish racial portrait, the psychosexual impact of that racial theory as internalized by Jewish males, and differing or conflicting discussions of Judaic-based gender and codes of male behavior. By focusing alternately on non-Jewish and Jewish writers, Davison explores how the racial/gender construct of "the feminized Jew" was pivotal to each in negotiating male-selfhood during his encounter with modernity. The study engages these issues during the Dreyfus era, within early Zionism, and in post-war High Modernism. In a final chapter on Roth, Davison explores how the author’s postmodernism remains tethered to Jewish history, liberalism, gender, and Judaic concepts.

Автор: Tim Edwards
Название: Men in the Mirror: Men`s Fashion, Masculinity, and Consumer Society
ISBN: 1474287344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474287340
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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In recent decades, the myth of fashionable women and sartorially challenged men has been overturned not least through the proliferation of men's style magazines such as GQ and the emergence of masculinity as a marketing tool. In this engaging book, Edwards applies a sociological approach to our understanding of men's fashion, which he argues is significant in the nexus of masculinity and society, past and present, rather than a narrow artistic or aesthetic interest.

Rejecting an essentialist or 'natural' origin, Edwards explores how masculinity and men's fashion are constructed, particularly in relation to consumer society. It is the growing commodification and aestheticism of everyday life, alongside developments in marketing and advertising, that Edwards identifies as the catalyst in the emergence of men's fashion, rather than an abstract 'crisis of masculinity' or 'new man' identity. Concurrently, in the 1980s, changes in demography, economics and ideology gave certain men greater freedom and spending power than ever before. Edwards investigates how these men, clearly distinguished by age, class and sexual orientation, were seduced by advertisers with sexualised images of suited city gents and body-beautiful boys in Levis, and how the resultant process of consumption was facilitated through developments in the practice of shopping itself, such as easy access to credit. He examines the influence of the advertisers' message in creating a hierarchy of masculinity in which some men are valorised and others are denigrated.

Starting with a historical review of men's fashion and a discussion of its importance and meanings, Edwards goes on to analyse the contemporary marketing of menswear and masculinity in advertising and in the media, and considers the politics of fashion for men in terms of gender, class, race and sexuality.

Автор: Williams, Alastair (keele University)
Название: New music and the claims of modernity
ISBN: 1138269077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138269071
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Since 1945 the emphasis in new music has lain in a desire for progress, a concept challenged by postmodernist aesthetics.

Автор: de Boise
Название: Men, Masculinity, Music and Emotions
ISBN: 1137436085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137436085
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book looks at the historic and contemporary links between music`s connection to emotions and men`s supposed discomfort with their own emotional experience. Looking at music tastes and distaste, it demonstrates how a sociological analysis of music and gender can actually lead us to think about emotions and gender inequalities in different ways.

Название: Masculinity in opera
ISBN: 1138709409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138709409
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of recent if sporadic musicological discussion, the relationship between masculinity and opera has so far escaped detailed critical scrutiny. Operating from a position of sympathy with feminist and queer approaches and the phallocentric tendencies they identify, this study offers a unique perspective on the cultural relativism of opera by focusing on the male operatic subject. Anchored by musical analysis or close readings of musical discourse, the contributions take an interdisciplinary approach by also engaging with theatre, popular music, and cultural musicology scholarship. The various musical, theoretical, and socio-political trajectories of the essays are historically dispersed from seventeenth to twentieth- first-century operatic works and practices, visiting masculinity and the operatic voice, the complication or refusal of essentialist notions of masculinity, and the operatic representation of the 'crisis' of masculinity. This volume will not only enliven the study of masculinity in opera, but be an appealing contribution to music scholars interested in gender, history, and new musicology.