Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films

Introduction. Pistols and stamens : gender and genre in D. W. Griffith's Broken blossoms. Walking small : W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition. Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western. The classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll. Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in the delicate delinquent. "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in the cool world. Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 a space odyssey. Taking back The night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film. Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film. Man's favorite sport? the action films of Kathryn Bigelow