Pimps, wimps, studs, thugs and gentlemen: essays on media images of masculinity

Abstract

Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo -- Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Ambivalence, desire and the re-Imagining of Asian masculinity in Better luck Tomorrow / Ruthann Lee -- The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott -- Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy in reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc -- Bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl Carter -- Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: The case of Will Smith / David Magill -- Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein -- Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose -- Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith -- Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom -- Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson / Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw -- O.J. Simpson: tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson -- Major league baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman