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Masculinity in Film: The Emergence of a New Literature (February 2014): Works Cited

By Gerald Butters Jr.

Works Cited

Anderson, Eric.  Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities.  Routledge, 2009 (CH, Feb’10, 47-3232).

Balcerzak, Scott.  Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity.  Wayne State, 2013 (CH, Feb’14, 51-3136).

Chopra-Gant, Mike.  Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir.  I. B. Tauris (distrib. by Palgrave Macmillan), 2006.

Cornell, Drucilla.  Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity.  Fordham, 2009 (CH, Dec’09, 47-1897).

Dyer, Richard.  Stars.  BFI, 1980.

Eberwein, Robert.  Armed Forces: Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film.  Rutgers, 2007 (CH, Feb’08, 45-3105).

Fouz-Hernández, Santiago, and Alfredo Martínez-Expósito.  Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema.  I. B. Tauris, 2007 (CH, Apr’08, 45-4265).

Gallagher, Mark.  Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (CH, Nov’06, 44-1428).

Gerstner, David A.  Manly Arts: Masculinity and the Nation in Early American Cinema.  Duke, 2006 (CH, Dec’06, 44-2018).

____.  Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic.  Illinois, 2011 (CH, Oct’11, 49-0717).

Ging, Debbie.  Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (CH, Sep’13, 51-0172).

Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon, ed. by Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate.  Routledge, 2012 (CH, Oct’12, 50-0657).

Grant, Barry Keith.  Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films.  Wayne State, 2011 (CH, Jun’11, 48-5583).

Greven, David.  Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush.  Texas, 2009 (CH, Jun’10, 47-5540).

Hallas, Roger.  Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image.  Duke University, 2010 (CH, Aug’10, 47-6757).

Harris, Keith M.  Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media.  Routledge, 2006.

Haynes, John.  New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema.  Manchester University Press, 2003.

Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness, ed. by Sean Griffin.  SUNY Press, 2009 (CH, Dec’09, 47-1898).

Hollywood’s West: The American Frontier in Film, Television and History, ed. by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor.  University Press of Kentucky, 2005 (CH, Jun’06, 43-5796).

Hughes, Howard.  Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood.  I. B. Tauris, 2009 (CH, Mar’10, 47-3692).

Kessler, Kelly.  Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (CH, Jun’11, 48-5588).

Kord, Susanne, and Elisabeth Krimmer.  Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan, 2011 (CH, Aug’12, 49-6776).

Lehman, Peter, and Susan Hunt.  Lady Chatterley’s Legacy in the Movies: Sex, Brains, and Body Guys.  Rutgers, 2010 (CH, Apr’11, 48-4372).

Lim, Song Hwee.  Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas.  Hawai’i, 2006 (CH, Apr’07, 44-4358).

Mazierska, Ewa.  Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Black Peters and Men of Marble.  Berghan Books, 2008 (CH, May’09, 46-4920).

MacKinnon, Kenneth.  Love, Tears, and the Male Spectator.  Fairleigh Dickinson; Associated University Presses, 2002 (CH, Mar’03, 40-3907).

McGillis, Roderick.  He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western.  Wilfrid Laurier, 2009 (CH, Apr’10, 47-4315).

McNally, Karen.  When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity.  Illinois, 2008 (CH, Sep’08, 46-0162).

Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, ed. by Timothy Shary.  Wayne State, 2013 (CH, Sep’13, 51-0178).

Moser, Joseph Paul.  Irish Masculinity on Screen: The Pugilists and Peacemakers of John Ford, Jim Sheridan, and Paul GreengrassMcFarland, 2013.

Peberdy, Donna.  Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American CinemaPalgrave Macmillan, 2011 (CH, Mar’12, 49-3764).

Performing Masculinity, ed. by Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (CH, Jan’11, 48-2466).

Perriam, Chris.  Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema: From Banderas to Bardem.  Oxford, 2003 (CH, Nov’03, 41-1453).

Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s, ed. by Anna Everett.  Rutgers, 2012 (CH, Nov’12, 50-1365).

Rehling, Nicola.  Extra-Ordinary Men: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema.  Lexington Books, 2009 (CH, Aug’09, 46-6699).

Reich, Jacqueline.  Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema.  Indiana, 2004 (CH, Oct’04, 42-0841).

Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a “Crazy” Black Man, ed. by Audrey Thomas McCluskey.  Indiana, 2008 (CH, Mar’09, 46-3729).

Rocha, Carolina.  Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Screening Genders, ed. and introd. by Krin Gabbard and William Luhr.  Rutgers, 2008 (CH, Dec’08, 46-1975).

Sellier, Geneviève.  Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema, tr. by Kristin Ross.  Duke University, 2008 (CH, Jul’08, 45-6065).

Shimizu, Celine Parreñas.  Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies.  Stanford, 2012 (CH, Oct’12, 50-0771).

Szeto, Kin-Yan.  The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood.  Southern Illinois, 2011 (CH, Dec’11, 49-1966).

The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema, ed. by Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, and Bruce Babington.  Wallflower, 2004 (CH, Sep’05, 43-0209).

Vernon, Alex.  On Tarzan.  Georgia, 2008 (CH, May’09, 46-4814).

Watkins, Mel.  Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry.  Pantheon Books, 2005 (CH, Mar’06, 43-3936).

Yates, Candida.  Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (CH, May’08, 45-4884).

Films Cited

2001: A Space Odyssey.  Directed by Stanley Kubrick.  MGM, 1968.

Almost Famous.  Directed by Cameron Crowe.  Dreamworks, 2000.

Any Given Sunday.  Directed by Oliver Stone.  Warner Bros., 1999.

Brokeback Mountain.  Directed by Ang Lee.  Focus Features, 2005.

Broken Blossoms.  Directed by D. W. Griffith.  D. W. Griffith Productions, 1919.

Casualties of War.  Directed by Brian De Palma.  Columbia Pictures, 1989.

The End of the Affair.  Directed by Neil Jordan.  Columbia Pictures, 1999.

Farewell My Concubine.  Directed by Kaige Chen.  Beijing Film Studio, 1993.

Fight Back, Fight AIDS: Fifteen Years of ACT UP.  Directed by James Wentzy.  Frameline Distributors [distributor], 1992.

Fight Club.  Directed by David Fincher.  Fox 2000 Pictures, 1999.

A Free Soul.  Directed by Clarence Brow.  MGM, 1931.

From Here to Eternity.  Directed by Fred Zinnemann.  Columbia Pictures, 1953.

The Getaway.  Directed by Sam Peckinpah.  Fine Artists, 1972.

Gilda.  Directed by Charles Vidor.  Columbia Pictures, 1946.

Happy Together.  Directed by Kar Wei Wong.  Block 2 Pictures, 1997.

Home from the Hill.  Directed by Vincente Minnelli.  MGM, 1960.

The Lord of the Rings.  Directed by Peter Jackson.  New Line Cinema, 2001-2003.

Magnolia.  Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.  Ghoulardi Film Company, 1999.

The Matrix.  Directed by Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski.  Warner Bros., 1999, 2003.

The Men.  Directed by Fred Zinnemann.  Stanley Kramer Productions, 1950.

Milk.  Directed by Gus Van Sant.  Focus Features, 2008.

Night of the Living Dead.  Directed by George A. Romero.  Image Ten, 1968.

The Omega Man.  Directed by Boris Sagal.  Walter Seltzer Productions, 1971.

The Passion of the Christ.  Directed by Mel Gibson.  Icon Productions, 2004.

A Perfect Murder.  Directed by Andrew David.  Warner Bros., 1998.

The Piano.  Directed by Jane Campion.  Australian Film Commission, 1993.

Point Break.  Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.  JVC Entertainment Networks, 1991.

Rear Window.  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Paramount Pictures, 1954.

Red River.  Directed by Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson.  Charles K. Feldman Group, 1948.

Rock Star.  Directed by Stephen Herek.  Warner Bros., 2001.

Scarlet Street.  Directed by Fritz Lang.  Fritz Lang Productions, 1945.

Sideways.  Directed by Alexander Payne.  Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2004.

The Silence of the Lambs.  Directed by Jonathan Demme.  Strong Heart/Demme Production, 1991.

Spiderman.  Trilogy, 2002-07, directed by Sam Raimi; The Amazing Spiderman, 2012, directed by Marc Webb.  Columbia Pictures.

Still Crazy.  Directed by Brian Gibson.  Columbia Pictures, 1998.

A Streetcar Named Desire.  Directed by Elia Kazan.  Charles K. Feldman Group, 1951.

Sunset Boulevard.  Directed by Billy Wilder.  Paramount Pictures, 1950.

Taxi Driver.  Directed by Martin Scorsese.  Columbia Pictures, 1976.

Training Day.  Directed by Antoine Fuqua.  Warner Bros., 2001.

Two Moon Junction.  Directed by Zalman King.  DDM Film Corporation, 1988.

Unfaithful.  Directed by Adrian Lyne.  Fox 2000 Pictures, 2002.

Velvet Goldmine.  Directed by Todd Haynes.  Channel Four Films, 1998.

Voices from the Front.  Directed by Sandra Elgear, Robyn Hutt, David Meieran.  Testing the Limits, 2004.

The Wedding Banquet.  Directed by Ang Lee.  Ang Lee Productions, 1993.

Zero Patience.  Directed by John Greyson.  Zero Patience Productions, 1993.