Performing American masculinities: the 21st-century man in popular culture

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Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: From Seinfeld to Obama: Millennial Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson Part 1. Masculinities and the Market: Late Capitalism and Corporate Influence on Gender Processes 1. Masters of Their Domain: Seinfeld and the Discipline of Mediated Men's Sexual Economy / C. Wesley Buerkle 2. Sexually Suspect: Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Neil LaBute / Brenda Boudreau 3. The Might of the Metrosexual: How a Mere Marketing Tool Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity / Margaret C. Ervin 4. Fathers, Sons, and Business in the Hollywood Office Movie / Latham Hunter Part 2. Beyond Gender Alone: Defining Multidimensional Masculinities 5. Popular Memory, Racial Construction, and the Visual Illusion of Freedom: The Re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille 6. Obama's Masculinities: A Landscape of Essential Contradictions / Marc E. Shaw and Elwood Watson 7. The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski 8. Masculinities in Dating Relationships: Reality and Representation at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation / Jimmie Manning 9. Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Man?: Female-to-Male Transgender Embodiment and the Politics of the Real in A Boy Named Sue and Body Alchemy / Michel J. Boucher Contributors Index