Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-cent…
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author--an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist ("The New York Times")--offers his first major work of nonfiction with this autobiographical narrative that is as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his previous works
A bold, playful and open-minded exploration of the role of men in the twenty-first century. Power explores how men and women can live together in a world where capitalism and consumerism has replaced the values - family, religion, service and honour - that used to give our lives…
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities
