Men Out of Focus : : The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties /

Men Out of Focus : : The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties / / Marko Dumančić.

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long...

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Dumančić, Marko,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 71 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Soviet Men in Need of Saving?
  • Chapter One What Was Stalinist Masculinity and Why Did It Change?
  • Chapter Two Being a Dad Is Not for Sissies
  • Chapter Three Fathers versus Sons, or, the Great Soviet Family in Trouble
  • Chapter Four The Trouble with Women: Consumerism and the Death of Rugged Masculinity
  • Chapter Five Our Friend the Atom? Science as a Threat to Masculinity
  • Chapter Six De-Heroization and the Pan-European Masculinity Crisis
  • Epilogue The End of the Long Sixties and the Fate of the Superfluous Man
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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