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  | | Intimate Violence(1st Edition) Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory by David Greven Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-021417-3, ISBN: 0-19-021417-1 "Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalyt ..." |
 | | Psycho-Sexual Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin by David Greven Paperback, 311 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75676-2, ISBN: 0-292-75676-3 "Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood-Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin-whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reco ..." |
 | | The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series by David Greven Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2020 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-7407-0, ISBN: 1-4766-7407-8 "The ABC TV series The Bionic Woman, created by Kenneth Johnson, was a 1970s pop culture phenomenon. Starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the groundbreaking series follows Jaime's evolution from vulnerable to an exploitative social order, to a fierce individualist defying a government that sees her as property. Beneath the action-packed surface of Jaime's battles with Fembots, themes such as the chosen family, technophobia, class pa ..." |
 | | Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema(2011st Edition) The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror by David Greven Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-35499-0, ISBN: 1-137-35499-2 "The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road, to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, an ..." |
 | | Men Beyond Desire Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature by David Greven Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6911-8, ISBN: 1-4039-6911-6 "This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually ..." |
 | | Queering The Terminator Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema by David Greven Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-4807-5, ISBN: 1-5013-4807-8 "The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story about pregnancy and birth that exclusivel ..." |
 | | Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature(1st Edition) Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville by David Greven Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-27371-9, ISBN: 1-138-27371-6 "Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ’gender protest’ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne consciously sought to represent same-sex desire in their writings. Focus ..." |
 | | Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek Allegories of Desire in the Television Series and Films by Professor David Greven Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2009 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-4413-7, ISBN: 0-7864-4413-4 |
 | | Ghost Faces Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) by David Greven Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 2016 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-6007-9, ISBN: 1-4384-6007-4 ""Ghost Faces" explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey s and Gilles Deleuze s paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher fi ..." |
 | | Men Beyond Desire(Reprint) Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature by David Greven Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-29808-9, ISBN: 1-137-29808-1 "Writing in the tradition of Leslie Fiedler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, David Greven offers a sweeping reassessment of American masculinity in the antebellum period. Greven's figure of the "inviolate male" of the period's literature - sexually and emotionally unavailable to women or other men - was a complex response to the competing, often incoherent pressures on men in the era. Lesbian desire, argues Greven, emerged through similar patt ..." |
 | | Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush by David Greven Paperback, 309 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72564-5, ISBN: 0-292-72564-7 "A struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood defined Hollywood masculinity in the period between the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. David Greven's contention is that a profound shift in representation occurred during the early 1990s when Hollywood was transformed by an explosion of films that foregrounded non-normative gendered identity and sexualities. In the years that have followed, popular ..." |
 | | Queering The Terminator Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema [Hardcover] Greven, David by David Greven Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-2234-1, ISBN: 1-5013-2234-6 "The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story about pregnancy and birth that exclusivel ..." |
 | | Intimate Violence(1st Edition) Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory by David Greven Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-021416-6, ISBN: 0-19-021416-3 "Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalyt ..." |
 | | Maurice by David Greven Published 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0-228-01877-3, ISBN: 0-228-01877-3 "Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man's journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men." |
 | | The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series by David Greven 188 Pages, Published 2020 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-3948-2, ISBN: 1-4766-3948-5 "Directed by Alan J. Levi. Teleplay by James D. Parriott. Airdate: February , . James D. parriott wrote many excellent Bionic episodes, beginning with the wonderful “angel of Mercy” (S1). In this episode, Jaime and the grizzled, cantankerous pilot ..." |
 | | Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville by David Greven 258 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-13011-6, ISBN: 1-317-13011-1 "Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville David Greven. parents, Fuller places commendable emphasis on the dignity of the “Aunt and Uncle” (57).59 In the third chapter, I discuss Fuller's exploration of the pleasures and dangers of narcissism, especially as it relates to femininity and samesex desire.60 Analogously, the author offers a positive reading here of the benefits of selfsociety and of bein ..." |
 | | Men Beyond Desire(1st Edition) Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature by David Greven Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-53107-3, ISBN: 1-349-53107-3 "This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually ..." |
 | | Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature Battle with the World by David Greven Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-6993-3, ISBN: 1-4094-6993-X |
 | | Psycho-Sexual Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin by David Greven 311 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74204-8, ISBN: 0-292-74204-5 "Thisis the moment the entire film has builttoward, in which Burns finally performs the titular act, coming onto Richards on the bench. Of course, his comeon is fraught with menace—he repeats the childish, singsongy ditty “Who's here, I'm here,you're here,” which Burns alsoquoted in the stingoperation scenewith Skip, and which the film gives no evidencethat anyone else but the killer, knows in its proper form (therefore suggesting o ..." |
 | | Psycho-Sexual Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin by David Greven Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74202-4, ISBN: 0-292-74202-9 "Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock’s depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reco ..." |
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