Old Homes, New Families: Innovating Living Arrangements for Older Persons

Until Masculine Interestsnot much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films -- primarily The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batmanseries, and Jerry Maguire-- Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum, he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.Streib, Gordon is the author of 'Old Homes, New Families: Innovating Living Arrangements for Older Persons' with ISBN 9780231056533 and ISBN 0231056532.