2003

[1]   Providing the meaning to Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, has become an initiation rite in theory and criticism culture. The meaning of Billy Budd usually comes in the form of the position which the critic takes on the novella’s

“I try to laugh about itcover it all up with liesI try and laugh about ithiding the tears in my eyescause boys don’t cryboys don’t cry”– The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry,” Boys Don’t Cry 1980“True to form, Dagger sulked, maintained his distance, and buried

[1]   A striking thing seems to be happening in contemporary male dance films. In the 1990s and into the new millennium, men suffering from masculinity crises often engage with dance in order to once again make a credible claim to their

[1]   BERELOWITZ: You make the argument that Eakins’s paintings are an attempt to negotiate – indeed, to refashion – Gilded Age conceptions of masculinity. Could you set out for us what was the dominant understanding of masculinity when