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Hollywood musicals : the film reader / edited by Steven Cohan Routledge, 2001.
Call No: YET TO PURCHASEAuthor: Cohan, Steven Publisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2001
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Masked men : masculinity and the movies in the fifties / Steven Cohan Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
Call No: 451-01 COHAuthor: Cohan, Steven Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c1997PhysDes: xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Arts and politics of the everydaySubject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA ; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; GRANT, CARY ; HOLDEN, WILLIAM ; HESTON, CHARLTON ; HUDSON, ROCK ; PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955) ; PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) Summary: When we think of the films of the 1950s, we inevitably remember the confident swagger of John Wayne, the suave sophistication of Cary Grant, and the emotional intensity of Marlon Brando. But today's culture critics see in the decade a period when heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate the representation of American masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the 1950s represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood depicted the sexual anxieties of the domesticated breadwinner, the repudiation of wartime homoerotic male bonding, the exhibitionism of muscular bodies, the transvestic connotations of boyishness, and the playboy bachelor apartment. These presentations challenged the postwar ideal of the typical American male, that omnipresent and seemingly invisible Man in a Gray Flannel SuitNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) and index; Filmography: p. [321]-322ISBN: 0253211271 (pa : alk. paper); 0253332974 (cl : alk. paper)LON: 12951206
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The road movie book / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark London New York: Routledge, 1997.
Call No: 754.11 ROAAuthor: Cohan, Steven ; Hark, Ina Rae Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1997PhysDes: xv, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ROAD MOVIES ; BUDDY FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; AIDS IN FILMS ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949) ; PARIS, TEXAS (GW/US, Wim Wenders, 1984) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; BOYS ON THE SIDE (US, Herbert Ross, 1995) ; FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (US, Russ Meyer, 1966) ; LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992) ; MIDNIGHT RUN (US, Martin Brest, 1988) ; MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991) ; NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994) ; PERFECT WORLD, A (US, Clint Eastwood, 1993) ; SORPASSO, IL (IT, Dino Risi, 1962) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (US, Beeban Kidron, 1995) ; WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1946) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexesISBN: 0415149363 (hbk.); 0415149371 (pbk.)LON: 97008924; 13107383
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Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark London New York: Routledge, 1993.
Call No: 451-01 SCRAuthor: Cohan, Steven ; Hark, Ina Rae Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1993PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: MEN IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MUSICALS ; ACTION FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; WHITE HEAT (US, Raoul Walsh, 1949) ; PLAY MISTY FOR ME (US, Clint Eastwood, 1971) ; SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) Summary: "Screening the Male challenges the traditional understanding of the male's position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale's ground-breaking article on the male spectacle, this collection looks beyong the seemingly unassailable monolithic understanding of the 'masculine' which has previously dominiated most film criticism.
Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzeneeger, from the musical to the horror film. from close readings to 'queer' readings, the essays all differ in their critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest, each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generational differences." -- BOOK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexesISBN: 0415077583; 0415077591 (pbk.)LON: 92005815; 8965703
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Sunset boulevard / Steven Cohan London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on behalf of British Film Institute, September 2022.
Call No: 79 SUN COHAuthor: Cohan, Steven Edition: 2022Place: LondonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on behalf of British Film InstitutePubDate: September 2022PhysDes: 104 pages : illustratedSeries: BFI film classicsSubject: SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950) Summary: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating facedown in ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) pool, and lines such as 'I am big, it's the pictures that got small' are some of the most memorable in Classical Hollywood cinema.
Steven Cohan's study of the film draws on original archival research to shed new light on the film's production history, and the contribution to the film's success and meanings of director Wilder, stars Holden and Swanson but also supporting actors Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (who plays Betty Schaefer), Cecil B. DeMille, and Hedda Hopper, as well as costumier Edith Head, and composer Franz Waxman. Cohan considers the film both as a 'backstudio' picture (a movie about Hollywood) and as a film noir, and in the context of McCarthyism, blacklisting and the Hollywood Ten.
Cohan explores how the film was marketed, its reception and afterlife, tracing how the film is at once a product of its own particular historical moment as the movie industry was transitioning out of the studio era, yet one that still speaks powerfully to contemporary audiences, and speculates on the reasons for its enduring appeal. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781839024085Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Sunset Boulevard:Ready for its close-up" -- 1. "It's a Hollywood Story" -- 2. "It Happened in Hollywood!" -- 3. "It's a Great Motion Picture!" -- Conclusion; "Is Hollywood the City of Dreams...or Heartbreak?" -- Notes -- Credits
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