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  • Psycho-Sexual

    Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin

    by David Greven ...
    Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic ... Read more

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  • Intimate Violence

    Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory

    by David Greven ...
    Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Queering The Terminator

    Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema

    by David Greven ...
    The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story ... Read more

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  • Maurice

    by David Greven ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Maurice, James Ivory’s 1987 adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel, follows an Edwardian man’s journey from the awakening of his desire for and love of men to self-acceptance. One of the most politically resistant films of the 1980s, Maurice dared to depict a young man’s coming-out story and a happy ending for its lovers, Maurice and Alec.James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, a couple whose ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • All the Devils Are Here

    American Romanticism and Literary Influence

    by David Greven ...
    The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and raceWith All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

  • Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush

    by David Greven ...
    A struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed by an explosion of films that foregrounded non-normative gendered identity and sexualities. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ghost Faces

    Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

    by David Greven ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationGhost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Men Beyond Desire

    Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America

    by David Greven ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics

    An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series

    by David Greven ...
    The ABC TV series The Bionic Woman, created by Kenneth Johnson, was a 1970s pop culture phenomenon. Starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the groundbreaking series follows Jaime's evolution from a young woman vulnerable to an exploitative social order, to a fierce individualist defying a government that sees her as property. Beneath the action-packed surface of Jaime's battles with Fembots, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature

    Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville

    by David Greven ...
    Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ’gender protest’ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne consciously sought to represent ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema

    The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror

    by David Greven ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

    $23.79 USD