Brian Baker is a Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. He has published Iain Sinclair (2007) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on the study and teaching of masculinities in literature and popular film.

Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television brilliantly dissects the images of masculinity expressed, and interrogated, in the films and novels of the troubled noughties. This is a wide-ranging, scholarly book, in which Brian Baker presents an encyclopaedic overview of his topic. He diagnoses a continued sense of masculinity in crisis in films as varied as Casino Royale, the Star Wars saga, The Hurt Locker, Frost/Nixon or The Damned United but also pinpoints how these masculinities are re-touched and re-worked in response to the changed post-millennial context. His detailed analyses revealingly place novels and films in their historical moment, alert to contemporary anxieties about a globalized world that is at once dynamic and obsessed with boundaries. A book full of lucid theoretical insights, this is an excellent, much-needed introduction to masculinities in contemporary fiction and film, essential reading for all students and researchers of gender.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: narratives of power1. Gallivanting round the world2. Masters and Commanders3. American hearts of darkness4. The Special RelationshipPart II: science fiction5. The enclave and the border6. Dystopia and the post-apocalyptic scene7. Alien Nations8. Everybody Runs9. AnnihilationsPart III: gothic/ horror/ the fantastic10. Tape Spectra11. Orpheus Descending12. Lecter13. The Angels and the DamnedConclusionBibliographyIndex

Brian Baker is a Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. He has published Iain Sinclair (2007) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on the study and teaching of masculinities in literature and popular film.

Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television brilliantly dissects the images of masculinity expressed, and interrogated, in the films and novels of the troubled noughties. This is a wide-ranging, scholarly book, in which Brian Baker presents an encyclopaedic overview of his topic. He diagnoses a continued sense of masculinity in crisis in films as varied as Casino Royale, the Star Wars saga, The Hurt Locker, Frost/Nixon or The Damned United but also pinpoints how these masculinities are re-touched and re-worked in response to the changed post-millennial context. His detailed analyses revealingly place novels and films in their historical moment, alert to contemporary anxieties about a globalized world that is at once dynamic and obsessed with boundaries. A book full of lucid theoretical insights, this is an excellent, much-needed introduction to masculinities in contemporary fiction and film, essential reading for all students and researchers of gender.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: narratives of power1. Gallivanting round the world2. Masters and Commanders3. American hearts of darkness4. The Special RelationshipPart II: science fiction5. The enclave and the border6. Dystopia and the post-apocalyptic scene7. Alien Nations8. Everybody Runs9. AnnihilationsPart III: gothic/ horror/ the fantastic10. Tape Spectra11. Orpheus Descending12. Lecter13. The Angels and the DamnedConclusionBibliographyIndex

Brian Baker is a Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. He has published Iain Sinclair (2007) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on the study and teaching of masculinities in literature and popular film.

Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television brilliantly dissects the images of masculinity expressed, and interrogated, in the films and novels of the troubled noughties. This is a wide-ranging, scholarly book, in which Brian Baker presents an encyclopaedic overview of his topic. He diagnoses a continued sense of masculinity in crisis in films as varied as Casino Royale, the Star Wars saga, The Hurt Locker, Frost/Nixon or The Damned United but also pinpoints how these masculinities are re-touched and re-worked in response to the changed post-millennial context. His detailed analyses revealingly place novels and films in their historical moment, alert to contemporary anxieties about a globalized world that is at once dynamic and obsessed with boundaries. A book full of lucid theoretical insights, this is an excellent, much-needed introduction to masculinities in contemporary fiction and film, essential reading for all students and researchers of gender.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: narratives of power1. Gallivanting round the world2. Masters and Commanders3. American hearts of darkness4. The Special RelationshipPart II: science fiction5. The enclave and the border6. Dystopia and the post-apocalyptic scene7. Alien Nations8. Everybody Runs9. AnnihilationsPart III: gothic/ horror/ the fantastic10. Tape Spectra11. Orpheus Descending12. Lecter13. The Angels and the DamnedConclusionBibliographyIndex