Screening the Male:

London: Routledge, 1993. First edition (stated). Large red octavo (black spine); x, 272 p, b&w illus; 25 cm. Extremely gentle wear to spine foot & head, barely rubbed corners, blue ink ownership signature to title page, else very good+ to near fine(-). Paperback. ISBN: 0415077591

Film; Men; Sexuality. Contents: Prologue: masculinity as spectacle: reflections on men and mainstream cinema / Steve Neale -- Valentino, 'optic intoxication, ' and dance madness / Gaylyn Studlar -- 'Feminizing' the song-and-dance man: Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Mama's boy: filial hysteria in White heat / Lucy Fischer -- The dialectic of female power and male hysteria in Play Misty for me / Adam Knee -- 'Don't blame this on a girl': female rape-revenge films / Peter Lehman -- Dark desires: male masochism in the horror film / Barbara Creed -- 'More human than I am alone': womb envy in David Cronenberg's The fly and Dead ringers / Helen W. Robbins -- Animals or Romans: looking at masculinity in Spartacus / Ina Rae Hark -- Feminism, 'the boyz, ' and other matters regarding the male / Robyn Wiegman -- The buddy politic / Cynthia J. Fuchs, Masculinity as multiple masquerade: the 'mature' Stallone and the Stallone clone / Chris Holmlund -- Dumb movies for dumb people: masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema / Yvonne Tasker -- Can masculinity be terminated? / Susan Jeffords.