Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Cinemas of Boyhood

Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality

Edited by: Timothy Shary

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209952

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About this book

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and boyhood in film. This collected volume features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.

Author / Editor information

Timothy Shary is the author of numerous books on youth and film, including Boyhood: A Young Life on Screen (Routledge, 2017), and Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2002; revised 2014). He is co-author of Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2016), and his publications have appeared in The Journal of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Boyhood Studies. He teaches at Eastern Florida State College.

Reviews

“The organizational scheme is laudable—Shary includes essays on individual films, auteurs, decades, and national cinemas. Future works on boyhood in cinema could build on any of these organizational categories to contribute to this nascent field…Highly Recommended.” • Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Timothy Shary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I
Chapter 1 Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of Superbad Victoria Cann and Erica Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2 The Once and Future King: Negotiating the Survival of Boys in 1990s Cinema Katie Barnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3 Transing Normative Boyhood Masculinity in Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo and Ryan M. Lescure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 Adolescent Same-Sex Romance and Non-Traditional Masculinity in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho and Do Começo ao Fim Hannah Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II
Chapter 5 The Rumble of Nostalgia: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vision of Boyhood Molly Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 6 Thatcher’s Sons? 1980s Boyhood in British Cinema, 2005–2010 Andy Pope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7 When Jackie Coogan Had His Hair Cut: Masculinity, Maturity, and the Movies in the 1920s Peter W. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 8 “I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par Natasha Anand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Chapter 9 Back in Time Yet of His Time: Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role Model Daniel Smith-Rowsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194