Masculinity in Fiction and Film

Brian Baker is Senior Lecturer at University College Chester.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cold Warrior; 2 Soldier Spy; 3 Operatives; 4 The Psycho in the Grey Flannel Suit; 5 Rogue Cops I: San Francisco; 6 Rogue Cops II: Los Angeles; 7 Old Age Westerns; 8 The Twilight Frontier; Bibliography; Index. Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cold Warriors; Post-war hegemonic masculinity; The Organization Man; The liberal self; Pohl and Kornbluth's Gladiator at Law; Towards the citizen-soldier; Starship Troopers and the citizen-soldier; The New Frontier; 2 Soldier, Spy; The split subject; 3 Operatives; Paranoia; The conspiracy thriller; 'I'm the only one who knows what this means'; 4 The Psycho in the Grey Flannel Suit; North by Northwest and The Game; The mask and masquerade: Psycho and American Psycho; Fight Club; American Beauty; Falling Down; 5 Rogue Cops I: San Francisco; Out of the West; The confession; Clint Eastwood and the Western; Feeling Lucky; The 'liberal' Harry; 6 Rogue Cops II: Los Angeles; Masculinity and governance; 7 Old Age Westerns; Western myth and Western ideology; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; The End of the West(ern): belatedness and the post-classical; Western; The Shootist; The Wild Bunch; 8 The Twilight Frontier; Bibliography; Index.

"'An ambitious and topical monograph... comprehensive, encyclopedic, reading-focussed and theoretically accessible enough to appeal to students, and it genuinely opens up new conceptual ground, especially by juxtaposing British and American masculinities within their specific national contexts.' Professor Berthold Schoene, University of Manchester"