{"product_id":"straight-white-men-cant-dance-american-masculinity-in-film-and-popular-culture-9781350443563","title":"Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Addie Tsai\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dance - Popular\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStraight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the last half-century: that straight white men can't dance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAddie Tsai traces this reiterative moving image of vaudevillian buffoonery in film, television, and video from the mid-1980s to present-day. During the height of homophobic hysteria in response to the AIDS epidemic, dance began to be used as a marker to scrutinize white men's position within homosexuality and masculinity. Therefore, white men could misperform \u003ci\u003egood \u003c\/i\u003edancing to more securely sit within hegemonic masculinity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTsai establishes how ethnic mimicry within American popular media, even that of white masculinity, is produced and reiterated from the 19th-century theatrical practice of blackface minstrelsy. This history resurfaces in one of the exceptions to the trope: when white men use the \u003ci\u003ehip \u003c\/i\u003ecurrency of blackness to affirm their (dancing) masculinity through theft and positionality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy revealing how dance in American popular media reifies and problematizes gendered and racialized economies, \u003ci\u003eStraight White Men Can't Dance \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how the image of the buffoonish white male dancer operates as a smokescreen for the more violent manipulative forces of the reigning figure of white supremacy.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46438021496983,"sku":"9781350443563","price":10801.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350443563.webp?v=1769106183","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/straight-white-men-cant-dance-american-masculinity-in-film-and-popular-culture-9781350443563","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}