Where the Boys Are : Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

A provocative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of boys’ identity in modern cinema. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Archetypes and Façades 1. Bad Boys and Hollywood Hype: Gendered Conflict in Juvenile Delinquency Films 2. Boys Won’t Be Boys: Cross-Gender Masquerade and Queer Agency in Ma Vie en rose 3. Survival of the Fattest: Contending with the Fat Boy in Children’s Ensemble Films 4. Crazy from the Heat: Southern Boys and Coming of Age 5. “Perfect Childhoods”: Larry Clark Puts Boys Onscreen 6. The Beautiful English Boy: Mark Lester and Oliver! 7. The Man-Boys of Steven Spielberg Part 2. Bonds and Beatifications 8. In Love and Trouble: Teenage Boys and Interracial Romance 9. The “Wee Men” of Glasgow Grow Up: Boyhood and Urban Space in Small Faces 10. The Boys’ Price in Martinique: Visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar Cane Alle 11. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy: François Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the Wild Child 12. Out West: Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and the Lost Mother 13. Mamma’s Boy: Counting on Ghosts, Sending Smoke Signals, and Finding Surrogate Fathers in Contemporary Film 14. Slack, Slacker, Slackest: Homosocial Bonding Practices in Contemporary Dude Cinema Part 3. Struggles and Redefinitions 15. Pursuits of Hapa-ness: Kip Fulbeck’s Boyhood among Ghosts 16. Cinematic Solutions to the Truancy Trend among Japanese Boys 17. L.I.E., The Believer, and the Sexuality of the Jewish Boy 18. The Feminization and Victimization of the African American Athlete in Boyz N the Hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and Me 19. Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema 20. Jerkus Interruptus: The Terrible Trials of Masturbating Boys in Recent Hollywood Cinema Contributors Index Back_Cover Discusses aspects of boyhood and its relation to cinema - in particular, the process whereby masculinities are socially, historically, economically, aesthetically, and psychologically created in male coming-of-age as depicted onscreen.