Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls

Murray Pomerance is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson Polytechnic University, and the author of Magia D'Amore and coeditor of Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot! Essays on Guns and Popular Culture.

"This book addresses a significant aspect of film studies and cultural studies today, namely, how gender is both represented and reconfigured in the artifacts of mass culture. In a myriad of ways, it builds on the important feminist criticism of the seventies and eighties, while at the same time reflecting the overall broadening of focus that occurred in the nineties—away from strictly psychoanalytic approaches and toward a more wide-ranging variety of both formal and sociological concerns." — Steven Shaviro, author of The Cinematic Body"From the first words of Pomerance's introduction to his clinching essay on the fortunes of Psycho, this book reads with foe and wit. It speaks not only to issues of gender or sexuality, but more directly—and compellingly—to the present state of cinema in a phase of globalization." — Tom Conley, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth CenturyMurray Pomerance PART I. Screened Gender beyond the Hollywood Hills 2. No Safe Place: Gender and Space in Polanski's Recent FilmsSteven Woodward 3. Veiled Voice and Vision in Iranian Cinema: The Evolution of Rakhshan Banietmad's FilmsHamid Naficy 4. Boy-Girls: Gender, Body, and Popular Culture in Hong Kong Action MoviesLenuta Giukin 5. The Gender of GenerAsian X in Clara Law's Migration TrilogyGina Marchetti PART II. Genders and Doings 6. Eating and Drinking, Men and WomenRebecca Bell-Metereau 7. Boys Will Be Boys: David Cronenberg's Crash Course in HeavyMettleMurray Forman 8. The Wabbit We-negotiates: Looney Tunes in a Conglomerate AgeKevin S. Sandler 9. "Real Men Don't Sing and Dance": Growing Up Male with the Hollywood Musical—A MemoirGarth Jowett 10. Cruise-ing into the Millennium: Performative Masculinity, Stardom, and the All-American Boy's BodyGaylyn Studlar 11. Strange Days: Gender and Ideology in New Genre FilmsBarry Keith Grant PART III. Paragons and Pariahs 12. She-Devils on Wheels: Women, Motorcycles, and MoviesFrances Gateward 13. Howard's First Kiss: Sissies and Gender Police in the "New" Old HollywoodJohn Sakeris 14. Hipsters and Nerds: Black Jazz Artists and Their White ShadowsKrin Gabbard 15. "Let's Keep Goin'!": On the Road with Louise and ThelmaJanice R. Welsch 16. Jews in Space: The "Ordeal of Masculinity" in Contemporary American Film and TelevisionDavid Desser 17. Gender and Other Transcendences: William Blake as Johnny DeppMichael DeAngelis 18. Marion Crane Dies TwiceMurray Pomerance List of Contributors Index