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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... ideal is an impossible one for most men , and so they often feel inadequate or insecure , and continually struggle to conform , at least as much as they're able , to the ideal . The feminine ideal is similarly linked to factors of race ...
... ideal is an impossible one for most men , and so they often feel inadequate or insecure , and continually struggle to conform , at least as much as they're able , to the ideal . The feminine ideal is similarly linked to factors of race ...
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... ideal power beyond the human . Although I certainly recognize that reli- gion can express important ethical concepts as well as a yearning , borne from life's struggles , for spiritual assurance , my perspective is that of a historical ...
... ideal power beyond the human . Although I certainly recognize that reli- gion can express important ethical concepts as well as a yearning , borne from life's struggles , for spiritual assurance , my perspective is that of a historical ...
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... ideal of masculinity , but both must confront and struggle with a society in which homosexuality is equated with unacceptable gender behavior . In America , homophobia con- structs attraction to other men as negating masculinity . For ...
... ideal of masculinity , but both must confront and struggle with a society in which homosexuality is equated with unacceptable gender behavior . In America , homophobia con- structs attraction to other men as negating masculinity . For ...
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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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