- Title
- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film
- Creator
- Gill, Rosalind; Hansen-Miller, David
- Relation
- Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema p. 36-50
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203152416
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- The aim of this chapter is to discuss an emerging genre of films that we call “lad flicks” or “lad movies.” Lad flicks can be thought of as a hybrid of “buddy movies,” romantic comedies, and “chick flicks” that center on the trials and tribulations of a young man or men as they grow up and make their way in the world (usually in North America or the United Kingdom). What distinguishes this popular and expanding genre from other coming-of-age movies, or movies featuring traditional male comic leads, is that masculinity itself is the central object. The source of dramatic tension and humor is the protagonists’ struggle with competing definitions of what it means to be a man and their own ability to live up to that category. In what strikes us as a significant shift in popular discourses concerning masculinity, these films are increasingly confi dent in treating masculinity as an object of humor.
- Subject
- films; masculinity; buddy movies; gender
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354039
- Identifier
- uon:31185
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415895873
- Language
- eng
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