Masculinity In The Contemporary Romantic Comedy

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This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : John Alberti
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-09-11
File : 140 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136222894


Masculinity In Contemporary Quality Television

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Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women’s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture. A rich study of masculinity and its representation in contemporary television, Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television will appeal to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, popular culture, television studies and cultural sociology with interests in gender, masculinities, and sexuality.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Michael Mario Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-03-03
File : 144 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317099826


Love In Contemporary Cinema

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This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film audiences. Through a media sociology lens, the book draws on analysis of five contemporary romantic films and the meanings brought to and made from them by socially and economically diverse audiences. Employing both textual analysis and primary interviews, the book contests overly pessimistic perspectives on modern intimacy while acknowledging and exploring some of the challenges, woes and changes that romantic love is experiencing in late capitalism. Concerns and debates over monogamy, the teleology romantic love and the division of labour in relationships percolate in this book’s examination of how audiences’ responses to these films reflect their attitudes and expectations regarding romantic love. This book will have great resonance for scholars and students of not just film studies and media studies, but also audience studies, media sociology, philosophy, gender and sexuality.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2021-07-18
File : 246 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000409482


The Trouble With Men

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A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt into four sections -- stars, class and race, fathers and bodies -- areas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema, romantic comedy and beur cinema.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2004
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1904764088


Millennial Masculinity

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Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release : 2012-12-17
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780814338445


Genre Authorship And Contemporary Women Filmmakers

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Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, this test sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola, and Kelly Reichard.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2018-06-06
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474425278


Love And Intimacy In Contemporary Society

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Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives. The book draws on sociological perspectives, cultural sociology and gender theory perspectives. It looks at how love and intimacy is experienced differently and intersected by gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality. This book aims to encourage people to understand theories of intimacy, emotions and desire by examining these concepts contemporaneously and cross-culturally. It also explores how love and intimacy is experienced by young people and how it is impacted by age. It looks at its representation in the media and film and focuses on how gender, ethnicity and sexuality offer different perspectives on love and intimacy. The book shows how relationships are impacted by social networking and new technologies and the opportunities and challenges posed by these new platforms for building relationships. Finally, the book examines how intimacy has become commercialised in late capitalism and how that acts to change relationships. The book is written in an accessible way and explores a range of theoretical debates and contemporary research around emotions, which can be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-12-06
File : 245 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351332545


Abstinence Cinema

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From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement’s abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman’s primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.

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Genre : Art
Author : Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release : 2016-03-08
File : 211 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813575131


Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities

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Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Susanne Kord
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2013-12-04
File : 480 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137016218


The Dynamics Of Masculinity In Contemporary Spanish Culture

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16 Identifying the male: Language, humor, and gender performance in Companyia T de Teatre's Homes! -- Index

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Lorraine Ryan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2016-11-03
File : 293 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781315302669