Running scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body/

Main Author: Lehman, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993
Series:Culture and the moving image
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index.
Contents: 1. Introduction: 'What Have We Done to Deserve This?' -- 2. 'I Will Suppress Nothing': Sexuality in Male Feral-Child Narratives -- 3. 'I Like Scars, Really': Men Called Scarface, Scar, and Stumpy -- 4. 'No Nothing': The Nothing Man -- 5. Another Nothing Man: Edward G. Robinson and Scarlet Street -- 6. 'I'll See You in Small Claims Court': Penis-Size Jokes and Their Relation to Hollywood's Unconscious -- 7. 'The Question of the Century': Sexology and the Medical Representation of Male Sexuality -- 8. An Answer to the Question of the Century: Dick Talk -- 9. The 'Gift' And the 'Keepsake': In the Realm of the Senses: Castration Fantasies -- 10. Conclusion: Running Scared.
Physical Description:viii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:1566390990