Hard Boiled Masculinities
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Author |
: Christopher Breu |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816644349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816644346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hard-boiled Masculinities by : Christopher Breu
The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men. Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace and traces the changes in its cultural conception as it moved back and forth across the divide between high and low culture as well as the color line that bifurcated American society. Examining the work of Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, and William Faulkner, as well as many lesser-known writers for the hypermasculine pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, Breu illustrates how the tough male was a product of cultural fantasy, one that shored up gender and racial stereotypes as a way of lashing out at the destabilizing effects of capitalism and social transformation. Christopher Breu is assistant professor of English at Illinois State University.
Author |
: Marta Usiekniewicz |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2023-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031291609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031291603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction by : Marta Usiekniewicz
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett's No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout's Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows that food and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.
Author |
: Jopi Nyman |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2022-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004490000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004490000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men Alone by : Jopi Nyman
This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, and To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. In this first full-length study of gender in hard-boiled fiction the genre is discussed as a representation of the ideologies of masculinity and individualism. Hard-boiled fiction is located in its historical and cultural context and it is argued that the genre, with its explicit emphasis on masculinity and masculine virtues, attempts to reaffirm a masculine order. The study argues that this emphasis is a counter-reaction to more general changes in the gender relations of the period. Indeed, hard-boiled fiction is argued to be an attempt to reconstruct a masculine identity based on anti-modern values generally accepted in the cultural context of the genre.
Author |
: Michael S. Kimmel |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 920 |
Release |
: 2003-12-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781576077757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1576077756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men & Masculinities [2 volumes] by : Michael S. Kimmel
The first encyclopedia to analyze, summarize, and explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. The process of "making masculinity visible" has been going on for over two decades and has produced a prodigious and interesting body of work. But until now the subject has had no authoritative reference source. Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel. The coverage brings together for the first time considerable knowledge of men and manhood, focusing on such areas as sexual violence, intimacy, pornography, homophobia, sports, profeminist men, rituals, sexism, and many other important subjects. Clearly, this unique reference is a valuable guide to students, teachers, writers, policymakers, journalists, and others who seek a fuller understanding of gender in the United States.
Author |
: Gregory Forter |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2000-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814728710 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814728715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Murdering Masculinities by : Gregory Forter
Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hammett's The Glass Key, Cain's Serenade, Faulkner's Sanctuary, Thompson's Pop. 1280, and Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious" that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to repress.
Author |
: Lee H. Bowker |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780761904526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0761904522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masculinities and Violence by : Lee H. Bowker
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Author |
: Christine Photinos |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 37 |
Release |
: 2015-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476624761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476624763 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction by : Christine Photinos
In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich's stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.
Author |
: Maysaa Husam Jaber |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2016-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137356475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137356472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction by : Maysaa Husam Jaber
This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.
Author |
: Mark Moss |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2012-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739166260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739166263 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Media and the Models of Masculinity by : Mark Moss
Mark Moss's The Media and the Models of Masculinity details the impact that the mass media has upon men's sense of identity, style, and deportment. From advertising to television shows, mass consumer culture defines and identifies how men select and sort what is fashionable and acceptable. Utilizing a large mine of mediated imagery, men and boys construct and define how to dress, act, and comport themselves. By engaging critical discussions on everything from fashion, to domestic space, to sports and beyond, readers are privy to a modern and fascinating account of the diverse and dominant perceptions of and on Western masculine culture. Historical tropes and models are especially important in this construction and influence and impact contemporary variations.
Author |
: Sara Martín |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2023-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031221446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031221443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture by : Sara Martín
This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of positive representations of men in fictional and non-fictional texts. The editors show how ideas of hegemonic and toxic masculinity have been too fixed on the exploration of dominance and subservience, and too little on the men (and the male characters in fiction) who behave following other ethical, personal and socially accepted patterns. Bringing together research from different periods and genres, this collection provides broad, multidisciplinary insights into alternative representations of masculinity.