Review of: Uta Fenske: Mannsbilder. Eine geschlechterhistorische Betrachtung von Hollywoodfilmen 1946–1960. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2008.

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  • Asokan Nirmalarajah Universität zu Köln

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/770

Keywords:

Film, Männlichkeit, Repräsentation, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Uta Fenske’s dissertation examines concepts of masculinity in classic 1950s Hollywood films. The historian thus looks back to an era of US history in which sociocultural upheavals led to a disturbance of traditional images of masculinity and to a discourse of crisis of the modern man. Fenske’s examination, informed by cultural studies, distinguishes itself in two different ways. Firstly, through the unorthodox choice of its object of inquiry the study expands the corpus of historical sources. Secondly, through recourse to a variety of genres it can show that the Hollywood films of the 1950s offer a greater richness of answers to the crisis than heretofore assumed.

Author Biography

Asokan Nirmalarajah, Universität zu Köln

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebrand im Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln seit August 2007; Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, Universität zu Köln seit April 2009
Finnish Sauna Society von/by Ville Miettinen

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Published

2009-10-16

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2009): Raum

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Offener Teil

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