Male beauty : postwar masculinity in theater, film, and physique magazines / Kenneth Krauss
- Author:
- Krauss, Kenneth, 1948-
- Published:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- Physical Description:
- viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Seeing through the glass menagerie: the emerging specter of male beauty -- Looks count: dangerous male beauty in Tea and sympathy -- Albee's untold story: the aftermath of male youth and beauty -- Male beauty conflicted: the destabilizing performances of Montgomery Clift -- Doing and undoing masculinity: The early performances of Marlon Brando -- Beauty forever young: the brief career of James Dean -- All about Dick: physique magazines and the career of Richard Harrison -- As beauty does: the retreating Dr. Bishop -- Johnny, we hardly knew ye: male sex, sexuality, and gender -- Conclusion.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781438450018 (hardcover : alk. paper)
143845001X (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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