ISBN: 9780857717627

Typical Men is the first book length study of masculinity in British cinemaand offers a broad and lively overview from the Second World War to the present day. Spicer argues that masculin… Mehr…

Typical Men is the first book length study of masculinity in British cinemaand offers a broad and lively overview from the Second World War to the present day. Spicer argues that masculinity in popular fiction can best beunderstood as a range of dynamic and competing cultural types which rise and fall in relation to shifting patterns of film production, audience taste and social change. Specific chapters are devoted to each of the major types debonair gentlemen, civilian professionals, action adventurers, the Ever yma n, Fools and Rogues, criminals, rebels and damaged men - which trace their changing histories through innovative readings of key films, together with a fresh look at the performances of particular stars including James Mason, Kenneth More, Michael Caine and Sean Connery. A final chapter explores the complex and hybrid types that have evolved within a volatile and unstable contemporary British cinema, now part of an array of interrelated media images of masculinity.Typical Men will be of keen interest to those concerned with the culturalhistory of gender, and its detailed and carefully contextualised interpretations of films afford a reappraisal of British cinema history, especially the neglected and despised 1950s.'Andrew Spicer's Typical Men is a major intervention in debates about masculinity in the cinema. It takes a lot of intellectual risks, and locates cinematic stereotypes of masculinity in a cinematic and cultural context. It is trenchant and original, and redefines the field of gender representation.' Sue Harper, Professor of Film History, University of Portsmouth'The strength of this elegantly and wittily written book is that, in the precision of its detail about individual performances, actors and films, it never loses sight of its argumentative threads.' Brian McFarlane, Screening the Past; PDF; Music, Stage & Screen > Film, TV & radio > Films, cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing<

ISBN: 9780857717627

Typical Men is the first book length study of masculinity in British cinemaand offers a broad and lively overview from the Second World War to the present day. Spicer argues that masculin… Mehr…

Typical Men is the first book length study of masculinity in British cinemaand offers a broad and lively overview from the Second World War to the present day. Spicer argues that masculinity in popular fiction can best beunderstood as a range of dynamic and competing cultural types which rise and fall in relation to shifting patterns of film production, audience taste and social change. Specific chapters are devoted to each of the major types debonair gentlemen, civilian professionals, action adventurers, the Ever yma n, Fools and Rogues, criminals, rebels and damaged men - which trace their changing histories through innovative readings of key films, together with a fresh look at the performances of particular stars including James Mason, Kenneth More, Michael Caine and Sean Connery. A final chapter explores the complex and hybrid types that have evolved within a volatile and unstable contemporary British cinema, now part of an array of interrelated media images of masculinity. Typical Men will be of keen interest to those concerned with the culturalhistory of gender, and its detailed and carefully contextualised interpretations of films afford a reappraisal of British cinema history, especially the neglected and despised 1950s. 'Andrew Spicer's Typical Men is a major intervention in debates about masculinity in the cinema. It takes a lot of intellectual risks, and locates cinematic stereotypes of masculinity in a cinematic and cultural context. It is trenchant and original, and redefines the field of gender representation.' – Sue Harper, Professor of Film History, University of Portsmouth 'The strength of this elegantly and wittily written book is that, in the precision of its detail about individual performances, actors and films, it never loses sight of its argumentative threads.' – Brian McFarlane, Screening the Past Social Science, eBooks.com<

ISBN: 9780857717627

Typical Men is the first history of masculinity in British film from World War II to the end of the 1990s.It explores in detail the changing nature of the dominant male cultural types: th… Mehr…

Typical Men is the first history of masculinity in British film from World War II to the end of the 1990s.It explores in detail the changing nature of the dominant male cultural types: the debonair genetleman, the Byronic hero, the Angry Young Man, the delinquent, the maladjusted veteran, villains and comic fools.Typical Men contains fresh interpretations of key films including In Which We Serve, They Made Me a Fugitive, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the Bond films. It also provides stimulating commentary on the performances of important male stars such as James Mason, Kenneth More, Sean Connery and Michael Caine.The book brings the story into the 21st century by describing the recent evolution of masculinity in British films. ‘One of the great strengths of Typical Men is its ability to dramatise the rise and fall, plenitude and exhaustion, of versions of masculinity in relation to the dynamics of social history … The detail within the broad overview is rich and fascinating’ – Bruce Babington, Journal of Popular British Cinema‘Typical Men breaks new ground … an intriguing and interesting fast-track journey through British cinema by way of what Spicer considers the cornerstones of key male types and actors.It roots through an astonishing number and variety of films, and teases out a string of masculine constructions and their background context.’ – Stephen Guy, Contemporary British History; PDF; Music, Stage & Screen > Film, TV & radio > Films, cinema, University of Nevada Press<

2001, ISBN: 9780857717627

The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: I.B.Tauris], I.B.Tauris, 2001

2001, ISBN: 9780857717627

The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: I.B.Tauris]