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   High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film » Read Now

   by Sharon Willis. 268 pgs.

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   ...out all the glass in an office in order to cripple McClane...above follows his slithering motion and the sinuous trail of blood...situated with the cameras -- in dizzying...
   
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   All That Hollywood Allows: Re-Reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama » Read Now

   by Jackie Byars. 326 pgs.

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   ...0-8078-1953-0 alk. paper .-- ISBN 0-8078-4312-1 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Sex roles in motion pictures. 2. Women in motion pictures. 3. Melodrama in motion pictures. 4. Feminist...
   
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   Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body » Read Now

   by Peter Lehman. 237 pgs.

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   ...2. Men in popular culture. 3. Sex role in motion pictures. I. Title. II. Series. PN1995...resulting from thrusting during sex in ventro-ventral positions...
   
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   Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood Movies » Read Now

   by Elizabeth G. Traube. 212 pgs.

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   ...studies Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8133-1313-9 -- ISBN 0-8133-1314-7 pbk. 1. Sex role in motion pictures. 2. Patriarchy Psychology -- United...
   
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   Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood » Read Now

   by Philip Green. 262 pgs.

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   This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age » Read Now

   by Gaylyn Studlar. 324 pgs.

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   Studlar looks at four major Hollywood male stars of the silent era--Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Lon Chaney--to illuminate the cultural, ideological, and historical implications of these stars in relation to contemporary debates over changing sexual and social norms.
   
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   Media-Tions: Forays into the Culture and Gender Wars » Read Now

   by Elayne Rapping. 235 pgs.

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   Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender » Read Now

   by Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu. 418 pgs.

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   ...the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction Berkeley...China market. Columbia Pictures gave in to NFCC pressure and agreed...assure the...
   
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   The impact of sex and gender role self-perception on affective reactions to different types of film., in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now

   by Mary Beth Oliver, Stephanie Lee Sargent, James B. Weaver Iii. 18 pgs.

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   ...about sex differences in emotionality. Sex Roles, 6, 435-443. Brody...Portrayals of women in prime-time network television...demographic characteristics. Sex Roles, 23...
   
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    Fear and Loathing at the Cineplex: Gender Differences in Descriptions and Perceptions of Slasher Films, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now

    by Justin M. Nolan, Gery W. Ryan. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    ...Gender and survival vs. death in slasher films: A content analysis. Sex Roles, 23, 187-196. Crane, J. L...affective reactions to horror films. Sex Roles, 20, 655-673...
    
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    Desperate deeds, desperate men: gender, race, and rape in silent feature films, 1915-1927., in The Journal of Men's Studies » Read Now

    by Joel Shrock. 18 pgs.

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    ...some nineteenth-century sexual roles, but recast her into new plots that reinforced the culture of rape in the United States. NOTE...and the commercialization of sex...
    
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    Duel or Duet? Gendered Nationalism in The Piano, in Film Criticism » Read Now

    by Davinia Thornley. 16 pgs.

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    ...theory provides a framework for situating Adas character by showing how, in her interactions with others, she in fact submits to the roles suggested for colonial women...
    
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    Wimps Whiners Weenies: Men in Movies Today, in The American Enterprise » Read Now

    by Don Feder. 4 pgs.

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    ...Wimps whiners weenies: men in movies today. by Don Feder...this list and tell me what these men have in common: Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Arnold...Irish. Schwarzenegger...