Description
The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today.
Contributors: Parveen Adams, Ian Balfour, Ray Barrie, Sabrina Barton, Steven Cohan, Rey Chow, Alexander Doty, Henry Jenkins III, Lynne Kirby, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Sasha Torres, and Sharon Willis.About the Author
Constance Penley teaches film studies and women's studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (Minnesota, 1989); editor of Feminism and Film Theory; and coeditor (with Andrew Ross of Technoculture (Minnesota, 1991) and (with Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, and Janet Bergstrom) of Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction (Minnesota, 1991).
Sharon Willis is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Rochester, where she teaches French, comparative literature, film, and women's studies. She is the author of Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, and is currently completing a book entitled Public Fantasies: Gender and Race in Contemporary Film.Book Information
ISBN 9780816621729
Author Constance Penley
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm
