Male beauty [electronic resource] : postwar masculinity in theater, film, and physique magazines / Kenneth Krauss.

By:

Krauss, Kenneth, 1948-

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:

9781438450025

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

306.4/613 23

LOC classification:

P96.M385 K83 2013

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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.

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