Tag: masculinity
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Man(n)ly films: ‘Heat’, masculinity and control
Although I use a clip from Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) in a first-year lecture to demonstrate the principles of classical continuity editing, it’s a while since I’ve watched any of the director’s films. However, I recently watched the fascinating new TV crime series Tokyo Vice, produced by Mann, who directed the first episode, and was prompted by this…
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Masculine Intimacies: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’
(An extract from my book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror. London and New York: Wallflower Press pp.56-62, in which I discuss the 2010 comedy TV series, The Trip. The sequel, The Trip to Italy is currently being screened on BBC2). Masculine intimacies Romantic and intimate relationships in Winterbottom’s films are haunted by loss, failure, rejection and…
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Gary’s war on terror: soldiers’ stories, the ‘discourse of impropriety’ and the comedy of terror
This is an edited version of the paper I gave at the University of Northumbria symposium, ‘Acting Up; Gender and Television Comedy’ on 14th Jan, 2012. A revised and extended version of this entitled, ‘The comedy of terror: ‘Gary: Tank Commander’ and the TV sitcom’s “discourse of impropriety”’, will be published in 2014 in Lacey, S.…
Bruce Bennett 