Ghost Faces
eBook - ePub

Ghost Faces

Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ghost Faces

Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

About this book

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey's and Gilles Deleuze's paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher film Scream to bromances and beta male comedies such as I Love You, Man to dramas such as Donnie Darko and 25th Hour to Rob Zombie's remake of the horror film Halloween. Greven also traces the disturbing connections between torture porn found in such films as Hostel and gay male Internet pornography.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Disrecognitions
  8. Chapter 1 Ghost Faces, Genre Bodies
  9. Chapter 2 The Murderous Origins of Bromance: Genre, Queer Killers, and Scream
  10. Chapter 3 “I Love You, Brom Bones”: Beta Male Comedies, Bromances, and American Culture
  11. Chapter 4 Apparitional Men: Masculinity and the Psychoanalytic Scene
  12. Chapter 5 Trick-or-Treating Alone: Rob Zombie’s Halloween
  13. Chapter 6 Torture/Porn: Hostel, Homophobia, and Gay Male Internet Pornography
  14. Coda
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover

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