Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236), filmography and index.
From Jesus to Jeremy: the Jewish male body on film, 1990 to present / Nathan Abrams -- Fragmented bodies: masculinity and nation in contemporary German cinema / Heidi Schlipphacke -- Hong Kong cinema and Chineseness: the palimpsestic male bodies of Wong Kar-wai / Konrad Gar-Yeu Ng -- Male bodies at the edge of the world: re-thinking hegemonic and 'other' masculinities in Australian cinema / Chris Beasley -- The post-colonial cowboy: masculinity, the western genre and Francophone African film / Rachail Langford -- The square circle: problematising the national masculine body in Indian cinema / Aparna Sharma -- Tran Anh Hung's body poetry / Robert Davis and Tim Maloney -- Closer than ever: contemporary French cinema and the male body in close-up / Gary Needham -- Caresses: the male body in the films of Ventura Pons / Santiago Fouz-Hernández -- Destroying the male body in British horror cinema / Alison Peirse -- When 'macho' bodies fail: spectacles of corporeality and the limits of the homosocial/sexual in Mexican cinema / Vek Lewis -- Cinematic cruising: Tsai Ming-liang's Bu san and the strangely moving bodies of Taiwanese cinema / D. Cuong O'Neill -- Exposing the body guy: the return of the repressed in Twentynine palms / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt.
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Borrowing its title from Gregg Araki's 2005 film, in which the camera's contemplation of the male body encourages us to feel that body, and covering a broad span of subjects and films, "Mysterious Skin" offers a wider, more representative picture of the depiction of the male body in contemporary world cinemas than has hitherto been attempted. An international array of major experts explore the treatment of masculinity and the male body in the cinemas of Africa, Australia, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, North America, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam, as well as Hollywood. Thei.
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