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Becoming What Women Want: Formations of Masculinity in Postfeminist Film and Television

by

Lauren Jade Thompson

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television Studies

University of Warwick, Department of Film and Television Studies

December 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

V

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

XI

DECLARATION

XII

ABSTRACT

XIII

INTRODUCTION

1

THE HIDDEN GENDER, THE HIDDEN CONSUMER, THE HIDDEN HOMEMAKER:

POSTFEMINISM AND MASCULINITY

28

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

28

UNDERSTANDING POSTFEMINISM

28

NEO-FEMINISM

34

"ELEMENTS OF A SENSIBILITY"

38

HIDDEN POSTFEMINIST SUBJECTS

44

MASCULINITY AND CONSUMPTION

50

HISTORICISING MASCULINITY: THE INVISIBLE GENDER

57

POSTFEMINISM, NEOLIBERALISM AND CLASS

67

UNDERSTANDING MEN AND HOME

73

MASCULINITY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF HETEROSEXUAL COUPLING IN

MAKEOVER AND LIFESTYLE TELEVISION

78

INTRODUCTION

78

CONTEXT

81

MAKEOVER HISTORIES

85

ii

CORPUS LIFESTYLE TELEVISION AND THE COUPLE MAKEOVER AND APPEARANCE SURVEILLANCE, MAKEOVER AND GENDER AESTHETIC TECHNOLOGIES AND CONSUMPTION MAKING MAKEOVER MASCULINE THE SUIT HARD AND SOFT BODIES DOMESTIC LIFE AND COUPLING COHABITATION AND LABOUR SEX FEELINGS & SUBJECTIVITY CONCLUSIONS

90 96 107 108 118 121 132 141 147 154 165 169 180

CONTEMPORARY MASCULINITY AND THE SITCOM

183

INTRODUCTION

183

SITCOM HISTORIES

185

INCOMPLETE MAKEOVERS: MASCULINITY, TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF AND THE SITCOM

195

SITCOM DOMESTICITY

207

MASCULINE DISRUPTION OF FEMININE HOMES

213

MASCULINE DOMESTICITY IN THE SITCOM: DYSFUNCTION AS EQUILIBRIUM

223

INSIDE THE HETEROSEXUAL CLOSET

242

FORMATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

247

A SUBJECT FOR THE NOUGHTIES: AN UNMARRIED MAN DEFINING THE ROMANTIC SEX COMEDY MAKING MASCULINITY

272

275 284

iii

THE PLAYBOY BACHELOR THE MAN CHILD BROKEN MEN AGEING MASCULINITIES CONCLUSIONS, ENDINGS, AND BACKLASH

294 317 333 352 364

CONCLUSION: NEW HEGEMONIES OF MASCULINITY

367

APPENDIX 1: ROMANTIC SEX COMEDY DVD COVERS

381

APPENDIX 2: DVD COVERS: A SHIFT IN AESTHETICS?

382

BIBLIOGRAPHY

383

FILMOGRAPHY FILMS TELEVISION PROGRAMMES

396 396 399

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