Male Trouble Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis [Hardcover]

A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Performing Male Trouble Sacrificial Masculinity in The Passion of the Christ Impotent Masculinities in Made in China and InterMission Homosexuality and Subjection in Shopping and Fucking and Faust is Dead Wounded Attachments in the Live Art of Ron Athey and Franko B David Blaine, Fathers 4 Justice, and the Spectacle of Heroic Masculinity The Jackassification of Male Trouble: Incorporating the Abject as Norm An Ethic of Fragilization Notes Bibliography Index

'Innovative in its Butler inflected, psychoanalytically informed, queer approach to a diverse range of work from Mark Ravenhill to Franko B, Walsh's book is a must for those engaged in cultural and performative studies of 'male trouble'. The study takes the masculinity in crisis discourse from the nineties and beyond to new theoretical heights.'

- Elaine Aston, Professor of Contemporary Performance, Lancaster University, UK

'Of all the books published on men and masculinities in the new millennium, Fintan Walsh's is the most perceptive and persuasive. Impressive in its range and justified in its claims, Male Trouble is psychoanalytically inflected cultural studies of the highest order.'

- Calvin Thomas, Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA

'Probing in its analyses of its artistic sources, and unafraid in its interrogations of western masculinity, Walsh's Male Trouble is a unique and persuasively rigorous ethico-political intervention into the notion of 'masculinity in crisis', which belongs on every gender, performance or cultural studies scholar's bookshelf, and should also be required reading for graduate plÃ-