Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Jacob Breslow ◽  
Jonathan A. Allan ◽  
Gregory Wolfman ◽  
Clifton Evers
Keyword(s):  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Popular Romance ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Boundaries

Miriam J. Abelson. Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 264 pp. ISBN: 9781517903510. Paperback, $25. Andrew Reilly and Ben Barry, eds. Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2020), 225 pp. ISBN: 9781789381146. Hardback, $106.50. Jonathan A. Allan. Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance (London: Routledge, 2019), 176 pp. ISBN: 9780815374077. Paperback, $31.95. Andrea Waling. White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol’ Aussie Bloke (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020), 222 pp. ISBN: 9781138633285. Hardback, $124.

Book Reviews

Projections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Zacks ◽  
Trevor Ponech ◽  
Jane Stadler ◽  
Malcolm Turvey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Gallese, Vittorio, and Michele Guerra. The Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience. Trans. Frances Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 272 pp., $45.00, ISBN: 9780198793533.Rawls, Christina, Diana Neiva, and Steven S. Gouveia, eds. Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides. New York: Routledge, 2019, 389 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-138-35169-1.Moss-Wellington, Wyatt. Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 256 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781474454322.Perez, Gilberto. The Eloquent Screen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 448 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-8166-4133-8.

Racializing heterosexuality: Non-normativity and East Asian characters in James Bond films

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie Hiramoto ◽  
Phoebe Pua
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
East Asian ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
James Bond ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Film Series

AbstractThis article investigates how naturalized models of hegemonic masculinity affect race and sexuality in the James Bond film series. Through close analysis of film dialogue and paralinguistic cues, the article examines how the sexualities of East Asian female and male characters are constructed as oversexed and undersexed, respectively. The analysis therefore affirms Connell's (1995) conception of white heterosexual masculinity as exemplary: East Asian characters are positioned not only as racial Others, but as bodies upon which Bond's heterosexual masculinity is reflected and affirmed as normative and, by extension, ideal. In this way, race is curiously invoked to ‘explain’ sexuality, and Bond's unmarked white masculinity becomes the normative referent for expressions of heterosexual desire. By showing how the sexuality of East Asian characters is typecast as non-normative, the article gestures toward the possibility of theorizing racialized performances of heterosexuality as queer. (East Asia, James Bond, sexuality, race, masculinity, femininity, normativity, film)*

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