Kenneth Krauss

Male Beauty (eBook, ePUB)

Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as men-many of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as "manly"-extended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438450025
• Artikelnr.: 60490905

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Krauss is Associate Professor of Drama at The College of Saint Rose. His books include The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comédie sans Tickets, also published by SUNY Press.