This book details the impact that the mass media has upon men's sense of identity, style, and deportment. From advertising to television shows, mass consumer culture defines and identifies how men select and sort what is fashionable and acceptable. Utilizing a large mine of medi…
Mark Moss's The Media and the Models of Masculinity details the impact that the mass media has upon men's sense of identity, style, and deportment. From advertising to television shows, mass consumer culture defines and identifies how men select and sort what is fashionable and …
This in-depth study of Frank Sinatra's film career, explores his iconic status in relation to his many performances in postwar Hollywood cinema. It considers how Sinatra's musical acts, television appearances, and public commentary impacted his screen performances in Pal Joey, T…
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity, what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails, since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would m…
"Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny, essential book. What is masculinity and what can it become? It might seem like a luxury in a world facing climate change and vast imbalances in global wealth, but Grayson Perry sees…
"Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny, essential book. What is masculinity and what can it become? It might seem like a luxury in a world facing climate change and vast imbalances in global wealth, but Grayson Perry sees…
Recreating Japanese men
by Frühstück, Sabine, Walthall, Anne
fromAsia--local studies/global themes
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior and charts breakdowns in trad…
The essays in this book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The text examines a range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behaviour.
"Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo--a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior--is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Y…
"Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo--a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior--is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Y…
