Male Trouble

Constance Penley teaches film studies and women’s studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (Minnesota, 1989); editor of Feminism and Film Theory; and coeditor (with Andrew Ross of Technoculture (Minnesota, 1991) and (with Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, and Janet Bergstrom) of Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction (Minnesota, 1991). Sharon Willis is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Rochester, where she teaches French, comparative literature, film, and women’s studies. She is the author of Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, and is currently completing a book entitled Public Fantasies: Gender and Race in Contemporary Film.

• Per os(cillation), Parveen Adarns; Fellowdrama, Ray Barrie; Masochism and male subjectivity, Kaja Silvennan; Male hysteria and early cinema, Lynne Kirby; Male narcissism and national culture - subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the children Rey Chow Dossier on Pee-wee's playhouse The cabinet of Dr Pee-wee - consumerism and sexual terror, Constance Penley; The playhouse of the signifier - reading Pee-wee, Herman Ian Balfour; "Going bonkers!" - children, play, and Pee-wee, Henry Jenkins III; The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes - queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world, Alexander Doty; Masquerading as the American male in the fifties - Picnic, William Holden and the spectacle of masculinity in Hollywood film, Steven Cohan; "Crisscross" - paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train Sabrina Barton; Disputed territories - masculinity and social space, Sharon Willis; Melodrama, masculinity, and the family - thirtysomething as therapy, Sasha Torres.