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Naked shots : = The masculinization of American photography, 1945-1960.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Naked shots :/
其他題名:	The masculinization of American photography, 1945-1960.
作者:	Tom, Patricia Vettel.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (483 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International60-03A.
標題:	American studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9834843click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780591882605

Naked shots : = The masculinization of American photography, 1945-1960.
Tom, Patricia Vettel.

Naked shots :The masculinization of American photography, 1945-1960. - 1 online resource (483 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references

In this dissertation, I examine the manner in which photography became a site for the reconstruction of masculinity after the historical trauma of World War II. I argue that photography--in its subject matter, its aesthetic, and in the rhetoric surrounding the profession and the act of photographing--became increasingly concerned with the restoration of the male body and psyche to wholeness, and with the assertion of mastery and autonomy necessary to the maintenance of collective faith in traditional masculinity. My five chapters concern five different models of postwar masculinity--breadwinner, warrior, tough guy, playboy, and rebel. Throughout this project, I contend that the stability of masculinity depends on the visibility of the male body, not only to provide proof of masculine potency, but because to be learned, masculinity requires a visible exchange between men. However, because such intense focus on male bodies risked homoerotic readings, the homophobic Cold War climate necessitated a masculine-coded rhetoric and aesthetic to compensate. A result of this masculinization was the triumph of a "new" modernist photography, one centered on individual artistic expression, but opposed to the formalist aesthetics of previous forms of modernism, which had come under attack as effeminate, sterile, and escapist. Rather than truth to medium and adherence to a transcendental aesthetic, this modernism, as exemplified by the work of Robert Frank, sought an existentialist truth and anti-aesthetic predicated on the primacy of masculine subjectivity and the authenticity of the male body. This continuing quest for truth, central to the tenets ofmodernism, was also related to Cold War anxiety. Indeed, the realism enabled by photography functioned to provide security by packaging the world for consumption, containing it within iconic images, and at the same time, serving as evidence of the male photographer's perilous, yet successful, journey through that world. "Naked shots" gave materiality to the ideology of containment, a symptom of postwar masculine crisis.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780591882605Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.
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