The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins

by Derek A. Burrill, Toby Miller

Overview

From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change with the times, but is often unable (or unwilling) to understand the new landscape. Avoiding rhetorics of victimization, Derek A. Burrill charts and analyzes the other guy in order to understand how men see themselves, in media and in culture at large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433122453
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	08/12/2014
Series:	Popular Culture and Everyday Life , #26
Pages:	167
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Derek A. Burrill (PhD, University of California-Davis) is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California-Riverside. He is the author of Die Tryin’: Videogames, Masculinity, Culture (Peter Lang, 2008).

Table of Contents

Contents: It’s Not You, It’s Me – Mumbling Toward Ecstasy: The Other Guy on the Big Screen – «I feel heard and validated»: The Other Guy and Sitcoms – Somewhere in There There’s a Man in There.