You Tarzan : masculinity, movies, and men / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1993.
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| Physical Description: | 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- You Tarzan / Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim
- Rock : the last guy you'd have figured / Richard Dyer
- Clarke Gable's balls : real men never lose their teeth / Joe Fisher
- The historical and hysterical : melodrama, war and masculinity in Dead poets society / Mike Hammond
- What are big boys made of : Spartacus, El Cid and the male epic / Leon Hunt
- Masculinity and the horror film / Peter Hutchings
- "It's as a man that you've failed" : masculinity and forbidden desire in The Spanish gardener / Andy Medhurst
- Tracking the sign of Tarzan : trans-media representation of a pop-culture icon / Walt Morton
- 'Do you walk the walk?' : aspects of masculinity in some Vietnam War films / John Newsinger
- Going solo : performance and identity in New York, New York, and Taxi driver / Ken Page
- One last chance : masculinity, ethnicity and the Greek Cypriot community of London / Panikos Panayi.
- One hundred and seventeen steps towards masculinity / Tom Ryall
- Blood, sweat and tears : Amitabh Bachchan, urban demi-god / Ashwani Sharma
- The invisible man : shrinking masculinity in the 1950s science fiction B-movie / Paul Wells
- No room for uncertainty : gridiron masculinity in North Dallas forty / Garry Whannel.