Publication

2017 - Taylor & Francis Group

Language

English

Word Count

46,500 words, Guess

Page Count

186 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCGT596 .G43 2018eb
  • LCCGT596 .G43 2018

Description

Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have evolved from the postwar era and their relationship to fashion to the present day. As well as demonstrating the role of male icons in contemporary society, this book's originality also lies in showing the many gender slippages that these icons help to effect or expose. It is by exploring the somewhat inviolate types accorded to contemporary masculinity that we see the very fragility of a stable or rounded male identity.

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