Behold the man : the hype and selling of male beauty in media and culture /: the hype and selling of male beauty in media and culture. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edisol Dotson.
• Authors: Dotson, Edisol W
• Contents: ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Where We Are The New Man Emerges Chapter 2. Fine Lines: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography The Early Aesthetes The Renaissance of Man Modern Heroes Art As Sex Picture This In Defense of Stereotypes Chapter 3. A Real Head Turner: Fiction Myths and Legends Romancing the Body Best-Selling Bodies Pink Pages Bedtime Bodies Chapter 4. Buy Me: Advertising The Smell of It Briefing the Stereotype Gorilla Suits The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man Accessories and Then Some Make the Man If It Says So in a Magazine, It Must Be True Here’s the Beef Chapter 5. Me Tarzan, You Wimp: Films Good Bodies Bad Bodies Soft Bodies, Aging Sex Symbols, and Rubber Suits Chapter 6. Body Guide: Television Prime-Time Beef Daytime Hunks Singing the Body Fantastic Chapter 7. Bigger Is Better: Pornography and Erotica The Male Centerfold Chapter 8. Skin and Bones: Dieting and Eating Disorders Chapter 9. The Unkindest Cut of All: Cosmetic Surgery Popular Procedures What Price Beauty? Chapter 10. The Fitness Fallacy: Muscles Sex and Salvation Muscles Equal Survival Muscle Medicine Chapter 11. Is He Cute?: Gay Male Culture The Real Men of Gay Sex Going for the Gay Dollar The Gay Media Chapter 12. Where Do We Go from Here? Notes Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.31; Masculinity; Beauty, Personal; Masculinity in popular culture; Masculinity in mass media
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317957478
• Related ISBNs: 9781317957485; 9781315865362
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