Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films

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In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter o f performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness and monsterliness, offer a window into the workings of current American society.Publication Year: 2013Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan USFormat: HWeight (Gram): 4581 Show more