Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

by Fox and Alistair Fox

To date, masculinity has tended to be presented in cinema studies as a monolithic category that serves the interests of a hegemonic, normative patriarchy. This book demonstrates how the art-house film, in the form of personal cinema and its exploitation of the melodramatic mode, tells a different story, presenting a vision of masculinity that is sexually fluid, fragmented, unstable, and often incapacitated to the point of paralysis, being undermined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839984074
• ISBN13: 9781839984075
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"