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By Roger Horrocks
This booklet stories many of the vital myths of masculinity in pop culture, together with the western, the horror movie, rock track and pornography. The booklet starts with an overview of a few of the major theoretical matters in gender stories and cultural reports, together with id among topic and textual content, and the controversy over the male topic place and the feminine item place in patriarchal tradition.
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Here is an art that goes beyond contemplation. Indeed the ravishing nature of certain popular art forms presents a fundamental paradox. One can be seduced into a chain of ideas or images that would normally seem alien. An example from TV: the yuppy soap series thirtysomething was filmed in a very sensuous manner, particularly the central couple, Michael and Hope. Thus, although at times one wanted to object that we were being presented with a kind of dream couple, with no connection with ordinary life, the sheer beauty of the spectacle being offered (and Michael and Hope were very beautiful) could dissolve that objection.
Are there cracks in the facade of patriarchy, or huge splits? These questions are of great moment in the study of masculinities, since patriarchal capitalism has needed the masculine gender as one of its main buttresses. Therefore cracks or splits in traditional 'virile' masculinity, and representations of it, may well indicate at least a weakening, and possibly a disintegration, in patriarchy and capitalism themselves. 4 Text and audience The relation between text and reader has been one of the foci for research in cultural studies, but there has been a wide spectrum of views on this issue.
2 Jones gives us many fascinating ideas about Hamlet's delay in taking revenge for his father, but he almost seems to suggest that Hamlet 35 36 Male Myths and Icons is a great and famous play because of its oedipal hero. This reduces the play enormously. Hamlet is more than a study in oedipal conflict! For one thing, it is one of the great modern dissertations on identity. Hamlet is preoccupied above all with himself, and constantly interrogates himself, explores his own consciousness. And this self-interrogation is expressed in the subtle and complex texture of Shakespeare's language.