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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls : gender in film at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Murray Pomerance.

Contributor(s): Series: SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.Description: xvi, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780791448861 (pbk.) :
  • 079144886X (pbk.) :
  • 0791448851 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S47 L33 2001
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century / Murray Pomerance -- Ch. 2. No Safe Place: Gender and Space in Polanski's Recent Films / Steven Woodward -- Ch. 3. Veiled Voice and Vision in Iranian Cinema: The Evolution of Rakhshan Banietemad's Films / Hamid Naficy -- Ch. 4. Boy-Girls: Gender, Body, and Popular Culture in Hong Kong Action Movies / Lenuta Giukin -- Ch. 5. The Gender of GenerAsian X in Clara Law's Migration Trilogy / Gina Marchetti -- Ch. 6. Eating and Drinking, Men and Women / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Ch. 7. Boys Will Be Boys: David Cronenberg's Crash Course in Heavy Mettle / Murray Forman -- Ch. 8. The Wabbit We-negotiates: Looney Tunes in a Conglomerate Age / Kevin S. Sandler -- Ch. 9. "Real Men Don't Sing and Dance": Growing Up Male with the Hollywood Musical - A Memoir / Garth Jowett -- Ch. 10. Cruise-ing into the Millennium: Performative Masculinity, Stardom, and the All-American Boy's Body / Gaylyn Studlar -- Ch. 11. Strange Days: Gender and Ideology in New Genre Films / Barry Keith Grant -- Ch. 12. She-Devils on Wheels: Women, Motorcycles, and Movies / Frances Gateward -- Ch. 13. Howard's First Kiss: Sissies and Gender Police in the "New" Old Hollywood / John Sakeris -- Ch. 14. Hipsters and Nerds: Black Jazz Artists and Their White Shadows / Krin Gabbard -- Ch. 15. "Let's Keep Goin'!": On the Road with Louise and Thelma / Janice R. Welsch -- Ch. 16. Jews in Space: The "Ordeal of Masculinity" in Contemporary American Film and Television / David Desser -- Ch. 17. Gender and Other Transcendences: William Blake as Johnny Depp / Michael DeAngelis -- Ch. 18. Marion Crane Dies Twice / Murray Pomerance.

Ch. 1. Introduction: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century / Murray Pomerance -- Ch. 2. No Safe Place: Gender and Space in Polanski's Recent Films / Steven Woodward -- Ch. 3. Veiled Voice and Vision in Iranian Cinema: The Evolution of Rakhshan Banietemad's Films / Hamid Naficy -- Ch. 4. Boy-Girls: Gender, Body, and Popular Culture in Hong Kong Action Movies / Lenuta Giukin -- Ch. 5. The Gender of GenerAsian X in Clara Law's Migration Trilogy / Gina Marchetti -- Ch. 6. Eating and Drinking, Men and Women / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Ch. 7. Boys Will Be Boys: David Cronenberg's Crash Course in Heavy Mettle / Murray Forman -- Ch. 8. The Wabbit We-negotiates: Looney Tunes in a Conglomerate Age / Kevin S. Sandler -- Ch. 9. "Real Men Don't Sing and Dance": Growing Up Male with the Hollywood Musical - A Memoir / Garth Jowett -- Ch. 10. Cruise-ing into the Millennium: Performative Masculinity, Stardom, and the All-American Boy's Body / Gaylyn Studlar -- Ch. 11. Strange Days: Gender and Ideology in New Genre Films / Barry Keith Grant -- Ch. 12. She-Devils on Wheels: Women, Motorcycles, and Movies / Frances Gateward -- Ch. 13. Howard's First Kiss: Sissies and Gender Police in the "New" Old Hollywood / John Sakeris -- Ch. 14. Hipsters and Nerds: Black Jazz Artists and Their White Shadows / Krin Gabbard -- Ch. 15. "Let's Keep Goin'!": On the Road with Louise and Thelma / Janice R. Welsch -- Ch. 16. Jews in Space: The "Ordeal of Masculinity" in Contemporary American Film and Television / David Desser -- Ch. 17. Gender and Other Transcendences: William Blake as Johnny Depp / Michael DeAngelis -- Ch. 18. Marion Crane Dies Twice / Murray Pomerance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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