The Trouble with Men : Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema

Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Turning the Male Inside Out 1(17) Phil Powrie Bruce Babington Ann Davies SECTION 1: STARS Dancing with balls in the 1940s: sissies, sailors and the camp masculinity of Gene Kelly 18(16) Steven Cohan He is as he is -- and always will be: Clark Gable and the reassertion of hegemonic masculinity 34(8) Timothy Connelly Framing the wolf: the spectacular masculinity of Alain Delon 42(12) Graeme Hayes Deconstructing Paco Rabal: masculinity, myth and meaning 54(12) Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas Masculinity and class: Michael Caine as `working-class hero' 66(11) Robert Shail The reluctance to commit: Hugh Grant and the new British romantic comedy 77(13) Andrew Spicer SECTION 2: CLASS & RACE Cinema's queer Jews: Jewishness and masculinity in Yiddish cinema 90(10) Michele Aaron A working-class hero is something to be? Changing representations of class and masculinity in British cinema 100(10) John Hill Masculinity and exclusion in post-1995 Beur and banlieue films 110(12) Carrie Tarr SECTION 3: FATHERS Herr Lubitsch joins the Corps Saxonia: history, gesture and homosociality in The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg 122(12) Bruce Babington `Pink neorealism' and the rehearsal of gender roles 1946--55 134(10) Mary Wood `Can the man panic?': masculinity and fatherhood in Nanni Moretti's Aprile 144(11) Paul Sutton Lost boys: trauma, masculinity and the missing child film 155(8) Emma Wilson Like father?: failing parents and angelic children in contemporary British social realist cinema 163(13) James Leggott SECTION 4: BODIES Queer looks, male gazes, taut torsos and designer labels: contemporary cinema, consumption and masculinity 176(11) Pamela Church Gibson The male body and the female gaze in Carmen films 187(9) Ann Davies `They look so uncomplicated once they're dissected': the act of seeing the dead penis with one's own eyes 196(11) Peter Lehman The w/hole and the abject 207(11) Phil Powrie Batman, masculinity and the technology of abjection 218(12) Calvin Thomas Bibliography 230(17) Index 247