Reading The Male Gaze In Literature And Culture: Studies In Erotic Epistemology (global Masculinities)
by James D. Bloom /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept
which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of
cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.
This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept
which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of
cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.
Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized
as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of
objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues
and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an
illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically
compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This
study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer
became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about
American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and
contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and
rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by
James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry
James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien,
Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino,
John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British
Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek
mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes,
microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification'
itself.
Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized
as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of
objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues
and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an
illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically
compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This
study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer
became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about
American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and
contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and
rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by
James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry
James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien,
Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino,
John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British
Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek
mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes,
microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification'
itself.