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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.

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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

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FINTAN WALSH is IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Drama at the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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