Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body 0814333397, 9780814333396
Running Scared responds to the absence of critical attention to male sexuality in film by bringing representations of ph
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English Pages 302 [300] Year 2007
Cover
Contents
Preface to the New Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: “What Have We Done to Deserve This?”
2. “I Will Suppress Nothing”: Sexuality in Male Feral-Child Narratives
3. “I Like Scars, Really”: Men Called Scarface, Scar, and Stumpy
4 “No Nothing”: The Nothing Man
5. Another Nothing Man: Edward G. Robinson and Scarlet Street
6. “I’ll See You in Small Claims Court”: Penis-Size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood’s Unconscious
7. “The Question of the Century”: Sexology and the Medical Representation of Male Sexuality
8. An Answer to the Question of the Century: Dick Talk
9. The “Gift” and the “Keepsake” in In the Realm of the Senses: Castration Fantasies
10. Running Scared
11. Conclusion to the New Edition: Crying
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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