title: Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India (Contributions in Sociology (Hardcover))
author: Steve Derne
description: ..."With audience studies predominantly studying women, a study showing how patriarchal mechanisms operate through emotion and sociality amongst male audiences is very welcome. Another achievement of Derne's book is his participant observation of filmgoing itself; certainly the first such effort in India. He shows how cinema audiences interact with the film screen in India: the shouting and cheering are crucial the male experience of film."-Critical Sociology<br /><br />"In addition to its cultural insights, the study adds to the growing body of research that emphasizes the diversity of Indian ways of thinking, especially how Indian men balance alternative notions with mainstream traditions."-Mass Phenomena<br /><br />?In addition to its cultural insights, the study adds to the growing body of research that emphasizes the diversity of Indian ways of thinking, especially how Indian men balance alternative notions with mainstream traditions.?-Mass Phenomena<br /><br />?Cinema is such an important industry and cultural influence in India that studies of films and audiences are almost irresistibly intriguing. It is valuable and interesting to get informed opinions about this field of life. Steve Derne's ethnographics study Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India is no exception....[v]ery enlightning and instructive.?-Contemporary South Asia<br /><br />?...With audience studies predominantly studying women, a study showing how patriarchal mechanisms operate through emotion and sociality amongst male audiences is very welcome. Another achievement of Derne's book is his participant observation of filmgoing itself; certainly the first such effort in India. He shows how cinema audiences interact with the film screen in India: the shouting and cheering are crucial the male experience of film.?-Critical Sociology<br /><br />"Cinema is such an important industry and cultural influence in India that studies of films and audiences are almost irresistibly intriguing. It is valuable and interesting to get informed opinions about this field of life. Steve Derne's ethnographics study Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India is no exception....[v]ery enlightning and instructive."-Contemporary South Asia<br /><br />.,."With audience studies predominantly studying women, a study showing how patriarchal mechanisms operate through emotion and sociality amongst male audiences is very welcome. Another achievement of Derne's book is his participant observation of filmgoing itself; certainly the first such effort in India. He shows how cinema audiences interact with the film screen in India: the shouting and cheering are crucial the male experience of film."-Critical Sociology
zlib_text: SCREENING THE MALE
  
  _Screening the Male_ challenges the traditional understanding of the male’s
  position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by
  scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale’s ground-
  breaking article on male spectacle, this collection looks beyond the seemingly
  unassailable monolithic understanding of the ‘masculine’
  
  which has previously dominated most film criticism.
  
  Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzenegger, from the musical to the horror film,
  from close readings to ‘queer’ readings, the essays all differ in their
  critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest,
  each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly
  linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the
  masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the
  body as it signifies gendered, racial, class, and generational differences.
  
  Demonstrating that Hollywood’s 