Stella Bruzzi is a Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick and Fellow of the British Academy

Bruzzi deftly interweaves sociological and psychoanalytic theories of gender, desire and identification with vivid close readings of the aesthetic tropes and stylistic effects that define male-centred genre films to evaluate how images of masculinity are conveyed in classic and contemporary cinema… This is a lucid, highly enjoyable book that will undoubtedly stimulate further interesting research on the relationship between gender, aesthetics and spectatorship.'

• Introduction; Chapter One: How mise-en-scène tells the man’s story; Chapter Two: Towards a Masculine Aesthetic; Chapter Three: Men’s Cinema.

Stella Bruzzi is a Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick and Fellow of the British Academy

Bruzzi deftly interweaves sociological and psychoanalytic theories of gender, desire and identification with vivid close readings of the aesthetic tropes and stylistic effects that define male-centred genre films to evaluate how images of masculinity are conveyed in classic and contemporary cinema… This is a lucid, highly enjoyable book that will undoubtedly stimulate further interesting research on the relationship between gender, aesthetics and spectatorship.'

• Introduction; Chapter One: How mise-en-scène tells the man’s story; Chapter Two: Towards a Masculine Aesthetic; Chapter Three: Men’s Cinema.