Titlebook: Male Myths and Icons; Masculinity in Popul Roger Horrocks,Jo Campling Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limi

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Westerns,iscourses’ taken to an endpoint – men gaze at each other, pump bullets into each other’s bodies, and lust after women as bar-room ‘whores’. Is the western therefore simply a celebration of patriarchal values? Does it represent a male extirpation of the female, a homoerotic expression of hatred and envy of women?

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Introduction,This book sets out to analyze some images of men, and some images used by men, in popular culture. I have chosen to look at popular culture in the belief that such forms as the horror film, the western novel and film, rock and pop music, and sport, give interesting insights into the themes and contradictions in the masculine gender.

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Studying Popular Culture,Just as one cannot approach gender without some theoretical preparation, so any study of popular culture must begin by briefly considering the scholarly background to it.

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Psychological Approaches to Culture,I have devoted a whole chapter to psychological approaches to culture, since it is the approach which interests me most, and because in the last twenty years the use of psychoanalytic ideas, and to some extent ideas from Jungian psychology, has increased enormously in literary criticism, film criticism and cultural studies.

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Horror Films,Horror films are often believed to have audiences which are primarily young and male. Thus in her book ., Carol Clover summarizes what available evidence there is about horror audiences, and concludes that pride of place goes to adolescent males.. This is also confirmed by James Twitchell in his book ..

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Book 1995he author argues that popular culture gives us highly complex and ambivalent images of men. The hero turns into the anti-hero; feminine and homoerotic material leak in; the male is often shown as the victim. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studie