Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Of Masculine, Monstrous, and Me

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 1-26

3. Tossing Blondes in Peter Jackson’s King Kong

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 27-72

4. Hooah! We … Are … Sparta!

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 73-120

5. Love and Violence in V for Vendetta

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 121-163

6. Going “Full Retard” in Tropic Thunder

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 165-193

7. The New Millennium Manliness

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 195-222

8. Coda: The Monster’s Suit

   • Kirk Combe, Brenda Boyle

   Pages 223-238

9. Back Matter

   Pages 239-267

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In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness and monsterliness, offer a window into the workings of current American society.

• America
• body
• corpus
• film
• Hollywood
• identity
• love
• metaphor
• society
• violence

To come.

Author Kirk Combe: Kirk Combe is Professor of English at Denison University, USA. Author Brenda Boyle: Brenda Boyle is Associate Professor of English at Denison University, USA.

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