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In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as men—many of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as "manly"—extended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.

Masculine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Masculinity in mass media. --- Ideal beautiful men --- Aesthetics --- Men in art --- Mass media

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How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers' sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and anthropological and social research. The authors show how such texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced. These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics, anthropology and semiotics.

Masculinity --- Masculinity in mass media. --- Masculinity in popular culture. --- Queer theory. --- Social aspects.

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In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China , Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.

Masculinity --- Men --- Masculinité --- Hommes --- Identity. --- Identité --- S11/0730 --- S02/0200 --- China: Social sciences--Women: since 1949 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- Masculinity in mass media. --- Masculinité --- Identité --- Masculinity in mass media --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Mass media --- Identity

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The Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to transnational influences has made Chinese notions of masculinity more cosmopolitan than ever before, yet the configurations of these hybrid masculinities retain the imprint of Chinese historical models. With the increasing interconnectivity of markets around the world, the hegemonic mode of manhood is now a highly mobile transnational business form of masculinity. However, the fusion of this kind of cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics has not diminished the conventional class and gender privileges for educated men. On the other hand, the traditionally prized intellectual masculinity in Chinese culture, which did not hold commerce in high regard, has reconciled with today's business values. Together these factors shape the outlook of the contemporary generation of Chinese elites. At the same time globalization has increased the cross-country mobility of blue-collar Chinese men, who may possess a masculine ideal that is different from their white-collar counterparts. Therefore it is important to examine various types of masculinity with the recent, reform-era mainland Chinese migration. The migrant man--whether he is a worker, student, pop idol, or writer (all cases studied in this volume)--could face challenges to his masculinity based on his race, class, intimate partners, or fatherhood. The strategies adopted by the Chinese men to reinvent their masculine identities in these stories offer much insight into the complex connections between masculinity and the rapid socioeconomic developments of postsocialist China.

Men --- Masculinity in mass media. --- Masculinity --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Mass media --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Identity. --- Masculinity in mass media --- S02/0300 --- S11/0702 --- S11/0730 --- Identity --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Women and gender: since 1949 --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- China --- 2000-2099

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This book examines changing representations of masculinity in geek media, during a time of transition in which "geek" has not only gone mainstream but also become a more contested space than ever, with continual clashes such as Gamergate, the Rabid and Sad Puppies' attacks on the Hugo Awards, and battles at conventions over "fake geek girls." Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett critique both gendered depictions of geeks, including shows like Chuck and The Big Bang Theory, and aspirational geek heroes, ranging from the Winchester brothers of Supernatural to BBC's Sherlock and the varied superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Through this analysis, the authors argue that toxic masculinity is deeply embedded in geek culture, and that the identity of geek as victimized other must be redefined before geek culture and media can ever become an inclusive space

Masculinity. --- Gender expression. --- Cyberbullying. --- Online hate speech. --- Internet --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Men --- Men in mass media --- Masculinity in mass media --- Social media --- Cyberbullying --- Online hate speech --- Identity --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Technology. --- Social media. --- Digital media. --- Popular Culture. --- Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies. --- Culture and Gender. --- Culture and Technology. --- Social Media. --- Digital/New Media. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- User-generated media --- User-generated content --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Men - Identity --- Internet - Moral and ethical aspects --- Popular culture.