Detecting Men
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Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film(SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film(SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)


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Looks at how detective films have reflected and shaped our ideas about masculinity, heroism, law and order, and national identity. Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective genre and the ways that detective films have negotiated changing social attitudes toward masculinity, heroism, law enforcement, and justice. Genre film can be a site for the expression and resolution of problematic social issues, but while there have been many studies of such other male genres as war films, gangster films, and Westerns, relatively little attention has been paid to detective films beyond film noir. In this volume, Philippa Gates examines classical films of the thirties and forties as well as recent examples of the genre, including Die Hard, the Lethal Weapon films, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Murder by Numbers, in order to explore social anxieties about masculinity and crime and Hollywood's conceptions of gender. Up until the early 1990s, Gates argues, the primary focus of the detective genre was the masculinity of the hero. However, from the mid-1990s onward, the genre has shifted to more technical portrayals of crime scene investigation, forensic science, and criminal profiling, offering a reassuring image of law enforcement in the face of violent crime. By investigating the evolution of the detective film, Gates suggests, perhaps we can detect the male.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART I The Crime Lab-Theorizing Masculinity and the Detective Genre 1. Introduction: The Case 2. The Myths of Masculinity Part II Investigating Masculinity-The 1940s and the 1980s 3. Investigating National Heroes: British Sleuths and American Dicks 4. Investigating Crisis: Neo-Noir Heroes and Femmes Fatales 5. Investigating Crisis: The Spectacle of "Musculinity" Part III Investigating the Crime Scene-The 1990s and 2000s 6. Investigating the Hero: The Criminalist 7. Investigating the "Other": Race and the Detective 8. Investigating the "Other": Women and Youth 9. Investigating the "Other": The Cult of Villainy 10. End of the Investigation: Case Closed Notes Filmography Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Philippa Gates is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, and is the coeditor (with Stacy Gillis) of The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film.

Review :
"This topic is timely and in many ways overdue. This is the first book to really put all the pieces together, and in the process of constructing this historical overview, Gates discovers profound connections and shifts that others have missed." -- Peter Lehman, author of Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791468142
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Series Title: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video
  • Sub Title: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791468143
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr


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