This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us highly complex and ambivalent images of men. The hero turns into the anti-hero; feminine and homoerotic material leak in; the male is often shown as the victim. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studies, such as identification and the relation between subject and text.
- ISBN10 0333616987
- ISBN13 9780333616987
- Publish Date 25 September 1995 (first published 20 September 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 August 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English