Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2012!

" An interesting work on the intersection of genre and masculinity in modern American film. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. " - CHOICE

" This terrific book will be sure to provoke welcome and lively debate. Skillfully and ambitiously argued, both comprehensive and astutely attentive to the smallest telling detail, and as fair-minded toward its subject as it is rigorously probing, Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities is a valuable contribution to an emergent field. I have no doubt that it will quickly prove to be required reading. " - David Greven, associate professor, Department of Literatures in English, Connecticut College and author of Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush and Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema