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  • Psycho-Sexual

    Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin

    by David Greven ...
    Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men Beyond Desire

    Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America

    by David Greven ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush

    by David Greven ...
    A struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed by an explosion of films that foregrounded non-normative gendered identity and sexualities. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • All the Devils Are Here

    American Romanticism and Literary Influence

    by David Greven ...
    The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and raceWith All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Intimate Violence

    Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory

    by David Greven ...
    Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Queering The Terminator

    Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema

    by David Greven ...
    The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Ghost Faces

    Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity

    by David Greven ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationGhost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Ryan Murphy's Queer America

    Edited by Brenda R. Weber, David Greven ...
    Ryan Murphy is a self-described "gay boy from Indiana," who has grown up to forge a media empire. With an extraordinary list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries to his name, Murphy can now boast one of the broadest and most successful careers in Hollywood. Serving as writer, producer, and director, his creative output includes limited-run dramas (such as Feud, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • American Cinema of the 2010s

    Themes and Variations

    by Dennis Bingham, Michele Schreiber, David Greven, Raymond Haberski Jr., Alexandra Keller, Daniel Smith-Rowsey, Lisa Bode, Cynthia Baron, Julie Levinson, Mikal J. Gaines0 ...
    Series series Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation’s political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood reflected these divisions, choosing to concentrate on big franchise blockbusters at the expense of mid-budget films, while new players like Netflix and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Haunting Realities

    Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

    by Monika Elbert, Wendy Ryden, Stephen Arch, David Greven, Donna M. Campbell, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Steve Marsden, Christine A. Wooley, Dennis Berthold0, Alicia Mischa Renfroe1, Charlotte L. Quinney2, Gary Totten3, Dara Downey4, Daniel Mrozowski5, Kenneth K. Brandt6, Patricia Luedecke7, Lisa A. Long8 ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    by Steven Rybin, Brenda Austin-Smith, Karen Hollinger, Rick Warner, David Greven, Celestino Deleyto, Jennifer O'Meara, Danielle E. Williams, Daniel Varndell, Kyle Stevens0, Matt Connolly1, Cynthia Baron2 ...
    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics

    An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series

    by David Greven ...
    The ABC TV series The Bionic Woman, created by Kenneth Johnson, was a 1970s pop culture phenomenon. Starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the groundbreaking series follows Jaime's evolution from a young woman vulnerable to an exploitative social order, to a fierce individualist defying a government that sees her as property. Beneath the action-packed surface of Jaime's battles with Fembots, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD