Ghost Faces

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of many books, including Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin and Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Disrecognitions1. Ghost Faces, Genre Bodies2. The Murderous Origins of Bromance: Genre, Queer Killers, and Scream 3. "I Love You, Brom Bones": Beta Male Comedies, Bromances, and American Culture4. Apparitional Men: Masculinity and the Psychoanalytic Scene5. Trick-or-Treating Alone: Rob Zombie’s Halloween 6. Torture/Porn: Hostel, Homophobia, and Gay Male Internet PornographyCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

"Ghost Faces is a fascinating and important book that will offer film scholars interested in genre and gender much to consider. The book does not rely on production information or industry material, but instead on Greven's application of gender and queer theory in order to read and interpret his chosen films. His readings make readers want to go back and watch the films with fresh eyes, and that is after all what a good piece of film theory and scholarship should do." — Film & History"...important food for thought in the postmillennial age. Highly recommended." — CHOICE