Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Contents

Part 1. Archetypes and Façades 1. Bad Boys and Hollywood Hype: Gendered Conflict in Juvenile Delinquency Films 21 Timothy Shary 2. Boys Won’t Be Boys: Cross-Gender Masquerade and Queer Agency in Ma Vie en rose 41 Cordula Quint 3. Survival of the Fattest: Contending with the Fat Boy in Children’s Ensemble Films 61 Jerry Mosher 4. Crazy from the Heat: Southern Boys and Coming of Age 83 Mary B. O'Shea 5. “Perfect Childhoods”: Larry Clark Puts Boys Onscreen 98 Sudhir Mahadevan 6. The Beautiful English Boy: Mark Lester and Oliver! 114 Dianne Brooks 7. The Man-Boys of Steven Spielberg 133 Murray Pomerance Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward vii Part 2. Bonds and Beatifications 8. In Love and Trouble: Teenage Boys and Interracial Romance 157 Frances Gateward 9. The “Wee Men” of Glasgow Grow Up: Boyhood and Urban Space in Small Faces 183 Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd 10. The Boys’ Price in Martinique: Visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar Cane Alley 203 Tarshia L. Stanley 11. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy: François Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the Wild Child 217 Patrick E. White 12. Out West: Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and the Lost Mother 233 Matthew Tinkcom 13. Mamma’s Boy: Counting on Ghosts, Sending Smoke Signals, and Finding Surrogate Fathers in Contemporary Film 246 Nicole Marie Keating 14. Slack, Slacker, Slackest: Homosocial Bonding Practices in Contemporary Dude Cinema 264 John Troyer and Chani Marchiselli Part 3. Struggles and Redefinitions 15. Pursuits of Hapa-ness: Kip Fulbeck’s Boyhood among Ghosts 279 Gina Marchetti 16. Cinematic Solutions to the Truancy Trend among Japanese Boys 297 Christopher Ames contents viii 17. L.I.E., The Believer, and the Sexuality of the Jewish Boy 316 Steven Alan Carr 18. The Feminization and Victimization of the African American Athlete in Boyz N the Hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and Me 333 Charlene Regester 19. Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema 350 Corey K. Creekmur 20. Jerkus Interruptus: The Terrible Trials of Masturbating Boys in Recent Hollywood Cinema 377 Steven Jay Schneider Contributors 395 Index 401 contents ix ...