On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the FilmOn Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from gay and lesbian/queer studies, American studies, social history, film history, and literary history, but avoids specialized theoretical language in order to be accessible to the many people interested in the story and the film. Original, interdisciplinary, and engaging, On Brokeback Mountain is intended to be not only useful to academic specialists but also accessible and readable for any interested, educated reader. The two versions of Brokeback Mountain are significant for taking readers and audiences inside the perspectives of men who love men, showing what physical and emotional passion, and hostility toward that passion, may be like for them. The story and the film help in understanding the many men who love men and who don't fit stereotypes of gay men or participate in the gay/queer worlds of urban/academic communities, especially men in rural areas and in working class contexts. This book examines the presentation of friendship, sex, and love between men in Brokeback Mountain, as well as the depiction of homophobia and its effects on men who love men and their families. It relates the story and the film to the literary tradition of the homoerotic pastoral, the literary/movie tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story. |
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Page xiii
... cause him to try to pass for straight . Brokeback Mountain also raises the question of how much difference there really is between friendship between men and love between men , though American society tries very hard to define and ...
... cause him to try to pass for straight . Brokeback Mountain also raises the question of how much difference there really is between friendship between men and love between men , though American society tries very hard to define and ...
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... cause it . In relation to this , both the story and the film are particularly insightful about the ways homophobia distorts the interactions between parents and children , and the ways the fear and shame men have been taught about ...
... cause it . In relation to this , both the story and the film are particularly insightful about the ways homophobia distorts the interactions between parents and children , and the ways the fear and shame men have been taught about ...
Page xvi
... causes of ho- mophobia and the forms it takes , relating the insights presented in the two versions to important current analytical ideas about homophobic prejudice . The fifth and longest chapter , on love , looks in detail at the ...
... causes of ho- mophobia and the forms it takes , relating the insights presented in the two versions to important current analytical ideas about homophobic prejudice . The fifth and longest chapter , on love , looks in detail at the ...
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... caused a degree of change , men continue to occupy privileged positions in relation to women throughout society . The ... causes many women to work hard to conform as well . Indeed , the feminine ideal is even more difficult to attain ...
... caused a degree of change , men continue to occupy privileged positions in relation to women throughout society . The ... causes many women to work hard to conform as well . Indeed , the feminine ideal is even more difficult to attain ...
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... causing most members of the society to try to conform to hege- monic constructions of acceptable sexual and gender behavior . The fear of be- ing labeled homosexual operates to enforce conformity throughout society . For straight people ...
... causing most members of the society to try to conform to hege- monic constructions of acceptable sexual and gender behavior . The fear of be- ing labeled homosexual operates to enforce conformity throughout society . For straight people ...
Contents
Reactions To Brokeback Mountain | xlv |
A Companion Where None Had Been Expected Friendship | 1 |
Guns Goin Off Sex | 41 |
The Rushing Cold of the Mountain Nature | 73 |
We Do That in the Wrong Place Well Be Dead Hatred and Fear | 135 |
Separate and Difficult Lives Love | 177 |
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