Mysterious skin : male bodies in contemporary cinema / edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernández.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: xv, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781845118310 (pbk.)
  • 1845118316 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436521 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M34 M97 2009
Contents:
From Jesus to Jeremy: the Jewish male body on film, 1990 to present / Nathan Abrams -- Fragmented bodies: masculinity and nation in contemporary German cinema / Heidi Schlipphacke -- Hong Kong cinema and Chineseness: the palimpsestic male bodies of Wong Kar-wai / Konrad Gar-Yeu Ng -- Male bodies at the edge of the world: re-thinking hegemonic and 'other' masculinities in Australian cinema / Chris Beasley -- The post-colonial cowboy: masculinity, the western genre and Francophone African film / Rachael Langford -- The square circle: problematising the national masculine body in Indian cinema / Aparna Sharma -- Tran Anh Hung's body poetry / Robert Davis and Tim Maloney -- Closer than ever: contemporary French cinema and the male body in close-up / Gary Needham -- Caresses: the male body in the films of Ventura Pons / Santiago Fouz-Hernández -- Destroying the male body in British horror cinema / Alison Peirse -- When 'macho' bodies fail: spectacles of corporeality and the limits of the homosocial/sexual in Mexican cinema / Vek Lewis -- Cinematic cruising: Tsai Ming-liang's Bu san and the strangely moving bodies of Taiwanese cinema / D. Cuong O'Neill -- Exposing the body guy: the return of the repressed in Twentynine palms / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index.

Includes filmography (p. 237-244).

From Jesus to Jeremy: the Jewish male body on film, 1990 to present / Nathan Abrams -- Fragmented bodies: masculinity and nation in contemporary German cinema / Heidi Schlipphacke -- Hong Kong cinema and Chineseness: the palimpsestic male bodies of Wong Kar-wai / Konrad Gar-Yeu Ng -- Male bodies at the edge of the world: re-thinking hegemonic and 'other' masculinities in Australian cinema / Chris Beasley -- The post-colonial cowboy: masculinity, the western genre and Francophone African film / Rachael Langford -- The square circle: problematising the national masculine body in Indian cinema / Aparna Sharma -- Tran Anh Hung's body poetry / Robert Davis and Tim Maloney -- Closer than ever: contemporary French cinema and the male body in close-up / Gary Needham -- Caresses: the male body in the films of Ventura Pons / Santiago Fouz-Hernández -- Destroying the male body in British horror cinema / Alison Peirse -- When 'macho' bodies fail: spectacles of corporeality and the limits of the homosocial/sexual in Mexican cinema / Vek Lewis -- Cinematic cruising: Tsai Ming-liang's Bu san and the strangely moving bodies of Taiwanese cinema / D. Cuong O'Neill -- Exposing the body guy: the return of the repressed in Twentynine palms / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt.

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