Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813543406)

Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between."

The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. The ten essays that follow address a range of topics, including screen stars; depictions of gay, straight, queer, and transgender subjects; and the relationship between gender and genre. Widely respected scholars, including Robert T. Eberwein, Lucy Fischer, Chris Holmlund, E. Ann Kaplan, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, David Lugowski, Patricia Mellencamp, Jerry Mosher, Jacqueline Reich, and Chris Straayer, focus on the radical ideological advances of contemporary cinema, as well as on those groundbreaking films that have shaped our ideas about masculinity and femininity, not only in movies but in American culture at large.

The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.

Author: Robert Eberwein
ISBN-10: 0813543401
ISBN-13: 9780813543406
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2008
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/25/2008 pg. 16