Babington, Bruce; Davies, Ann; Powrie, Phil

The Trouble with Men

Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii INTRODUCTION: TURNING THE MALE INSIDE OUT Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington and Ann Davies 1(17) SECTION 1: STARS 1 Dancing with balls in the 1940's: sissies, sailors and the camp masculinity of Gene Kelly 18(16) Steven Cohan 2 He is as he is - and always will be: Clark Gable and the reassertion of hegemonic masculinity 34(8) Timothy Connelly 3 Framing the wolf: the spectacular masculinity of Alain Delon 42(12) Graeme Hayes 4 Deconstructing Paco Rabal: masculinity, myth and meaning 54(12) Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas 5 Masculinity and class: Michael Caine as 'working-class hero' 66(11) Robert Shail 6 The reluctance to commit: Hugh Grant and the new British romantic comedy 77(13) Andrew Spicer SECTION 2: CLASS & RACE 7 Cinema's queer Jews: Jewishness and masculinity in Yiddish cinema 90(10) Michele Aaron 8 A working-class hero is something to be? Changing representations of class and masculinity in British cinema 100(10) John Hill 9 Masculinity and exclusion in post-1995 Beur and banlieue films 110 Carrie Tarr SECTION 3: FATHERS 10 Herr Lubitsch joins the Corps Saxonia: history, gesture and homosociality in The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg 122(12) Bruce Babington 11 'Pink neorealism' and the rehearsal of gender roles 1946-55 134(10) Mary Wood 12 'Can the man panic?': masculinity and fatherhood in Nanni Moretti's Aprile 144(11) Paul Sutton 13 Lost boys: trauma, masculinity and the missing child film 155(8) Emma Wilson 14 Like father?: failing parents and angelic children in contemporary British social realist cinema 163(13) James Leggott SECTION 4: BODIES 15 Queer looks, male gazes, taut torsos and designer labels: contemporary cinema, consumption and masculinity 176(11) Pamela Church Gibson 16 The male body and the female gaze in Carmen films 187(9) Ann Davies 17 'They look so uncomplicated once they're dissected': the act of seeing the dead penis with one's own eyes 196(11) Peter Lehman 18 The w/hole and the abject 207(11) Phil Powrie 19 Batman, masculinity and the technology of abjection 218(12) Calvin Thomas Bibliography 230(17) Index 247