Abstract
This book sets out to analyze some images of men, and some images used by men, in popular culture. I have chosen to look at popular culture in the belief that such forms as the horror film, the western novel and film, rock and pop music, and sport, give interesting insights into the themes and contradictions in the masculine gender.
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1 Introduction
1. Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992) Chapter 5; Lynne Segal, Straight Sex: the Politics of Pleasure (London: Virago, 1994) pp. 271–5.
Contradictions in Rambo are discussed by Yvonne Tasker, Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) pp. 91–108; and by William Warner, ‘Spectacular Action: Rambo and the Popular Pleasures of Pain’, in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler (eds), Cultural Studies (New York and London: Routledge, 1992) pp. 672–88.
Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems: 1934–1952 (London: Dent, 1952) p. vii: ‘these poems … are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t’.
4. See Lynda Nead, The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality (London and New York: Routledge, 1992); Marina Warner, Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (London: Picador, 1987); S. R. Suleiman, The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986).
5. See Dick Hebdige, ‘Towards a Cartography of Taste: 1935-1962’, in B. Waites, T. Bennett and G. Martin (eds), Popular Culture: Past and Present (London and New York: Routledge, 1989) pp. 194–218.
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Horrocks, R. (1995). Introduction. In: Campling, J. (eds) Male Myths and Icons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389397_1
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