British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema
Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone
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2025
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1028-7 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1028-7 (ISBN)
British Gothic Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema explores the Hollywood careers and stardom of British male actors who had fought in the first World War.
In an apparently incongruous development in the years after the armistice, some of the men who fought in Scottish regiments during World War I found some degree of career success in Hollywood’s film industry, two of which included Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone. Through exploring transatlantic film history, this book uncovers the ways in which these men were presented in media and on screen, arguing that they carry with them, even in films made at the height of censorship, an appealing and attractive queerness. Owen-King expands on Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick’s theory of homosocial/homosexual continuum and offer readings of film texts that use her theories to survey gender and sexual identities within Hollywood’s Golden Era.
In an apparently incongruous development in the years after the armistice, some of the men who fought in Scottish regiments during World War I found some degree of career success in Hollywood’s film industry, two of which included Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone. Through exploring transatlantic film history, this book uncovers the ways in which these men were presented in media and on screen, arguing that they carry with them, even in films made at the height of censorship, an appealing and attractive queerness. Owen-King expands on Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick’s theory of homosocial/homosexual continuum and offer readings of film texts that use her theories to survey gender and sexual identities within Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Carolyn Owen-King is an independent researcher interested in twentieth century British and North American cultural history. Her research is focused mainly in the areas of star studies and fan cultures, gender representation in classical cinema, adaptation of literature to film, and Gothic war theatre.
Introduction: The Ghost Goes West
1. The Ladies from Hell and the Noel Coward Effect
2. Random Harvest, Ronald Colman, the Uncanny and the Great War
3. Ronald Colman: Masquerader
4. Basil Rathbone: Glamorous Masculinity and Double-Dealing Villainy
5. ScreenBasil
Conclusion: The Invisible Men
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 110 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-1028-7 / 9798765110287 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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