Where the Boys Are Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Name: Where the Boys Are Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
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ISBN: 9780814331156

ISBN-10: 0814331157

ISBN-13: 9780814331156

Edition: 2005

Authors: Murray Pomerance, Frances Gateward

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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 1/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction




Bad boys and Hollywood hype : gendered conflict in juvenile delinquency films




Boys won't be boys : cross-gender masquerade and queer agency in Ma Vie en rose




Survival of the fattest : contending with the fat boy in children's ensemble films




Crazy from the heat : southern boys and coming of age




"Perfect childhoods" : Larry Clark puts boys onscreen




The beautiful English boy : Mark Lester and Oliver!




The man-boys of Steven Spielberg




In love and trouble : teenage boys and interracial romance




The "wee men" of Glasgow grow up : boyhood and urban space in Small faces




The boys' price in Martinique : visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar cane alley




Portrait of the artist as a young boy : Francois Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the wild child




Out west : Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho and the lost mother




Mamma's boy : counting on ghosts, sending smoke signals, and finding surrogate fathers in contemporary film




Slack, slacker, slackest : homosocial bonding practices in contemporary dude cinema




Pursuits of hapa-ness : Kip Fulbeck's boyhood among ghosts




Cinematic solutions to the truancy trend among Japanese boys




L.I.E., The believer, and the sexuality of the Jewish boy




The feminization and victimization of the African American athlete in Boyz N the hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and me




Bombay boys : dissolving the male child in popular Hindi cinema




Jerkus interruptus : the terrible trials of masturbating boys in recent Hollywood cinema