Introduction / Constance Penley and Sharon Willis -- Per os(cillation) / Parveen Adams -- Fellowdrama / Ray Barrie (with introduction by Mark Cousins) -- Masochism and male subjectivity / Kaja Silverman -- Male hysteria and early cinema / Lynne Kirby -- Male narcissism and national culture : subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children / Rey Chow -- The cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee : consumerism and sexual terror / Constance Penley -- The Playhouse of the signifier : reading Pee-wee Herman / Ian Balfour -- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-wee / Henry Jenkins III -- The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes : queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world / Alexander Doty -- Masquerading as the American male in the fifties : Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film / Steven Cohan -- "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton -- Disputed territories : masculinity and social space / Sharon Willis -- Melodrama, masculinity, and the family : thirtysomething as therapy / Sasha Torres
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The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Reubens, Paul,1952-
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Men in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Sexos, Papel de los, en las películas cinematográficas