Masculinity in British Cinema, 1990-2010 / / Sarah Godfrey.

Explores British cinematic representations of masculinityFrom the new man to the metrosexual, British society from the 1990s to the 2000s was pre-occupied with questions about masculinity, and more specifically with the idea that it was somehow ‘in crisis.’ The first book-length study of British cin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION Masculinity in British Cinema, 1990–2010: Postfeminist Manifestations
  • CHAPTER 1 Changing Britain, Changing Men: From ‘New’ Man to the New Millennium
  • CHAPTER 2 Representations of Class, Crisis and White Masculinity in Postfeminist, Neoliberal Britain
  • CHAPTER 3 From Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to The Football Factory: Lad Culture and its Legacy
  • CHAPTER 4 Social Exclusion, Poverty Culture and Marginalised Masculinities: Narratives of Youth and Race
  • CHAPTER 5 Framing Fatherhood: Class, Race and Discourses of Dysfunction and Redemption
  • CHAPTER 6 Violence and Victimhood: Representations of Excessive Masculinities
  • CONCLUSION Reflections on Representations of Masculinity in British Cinema, 1990–2010
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index