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Looks at a range of fiction and film texts, since 1950's, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. This work covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers.

Masculinity in motion pictures. --- Men in motion pictures. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- English fiction --- American fiction --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism.

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This book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts - the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts - literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noé, Bonello) - in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities - and the phallus that symbolizes them - can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies.

French literature --- Gender identity in literature. --- Gender identity in motion pictures. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Penis in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- History.