Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema (Cinema and Society)

by Andrew Spicer (Author)

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  2003

  $59.17

  Provides a history of masculinity in British films from World War II onwards. The study explores in detail the changing nature of the dominant male cultural types: the debonair gentleman; the Byronic hero; the Angry Young Man; the delinquent; the maladjusted veteran; villains; and comic fools.