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Of muscles and men
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Michael G. Cornelius |
"Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his u… |
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He's All Man
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John M. Clum |
""He's All Man" is John M. Clum's insightful, biting, and characteristically humorous analysis of the central myths of American manhood that have been propagated by Hollywood films and dramatized by … |
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The street was mine
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Megan E. Abbott |
"This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerg… |
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Dangerous men
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Mick LaSalle |
"The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 were a period of loosened censorship that finally ended with the imposition of a harsh Production Code that would, for the next thirty-four years, censor muc… |
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Heroes, antiheroes, and dolts
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Ashton D. Trice,Samuel A. Holland |
"Through a discussion of 75 of the most popular American films 1921-1999, interesting changes in how masculinity is portrayed are revealed. Traditionally in popular films, men have met challenging ta… |
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