Hard-Boiled Masculinities

Name: Hard-Boiled Masculinities
Price: 11.86 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780816644346

ISBN-10: 0816644349

ISBN-13: 9780816644346

Edition: 2005

Authors: Christopher Breu

List price: $25.50

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $26.43

Marketplace

3 new & used from $11.86

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men.nbsp; Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace and traces…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748



Introduction: Hard-Boiled Masculinity and the Work of Cultural Fantasy



Wearing the Black Mask



Going Blood-Simple in Poisonville



The Hard-Boiled Male Travels Abroad



Not Your Average Joe



Freudian Knot or Gordian Knot?


Conclusion: Pulp Magazine Readership and the Politics of Collective Fantasy


Acknowledgments


Notes