American hunks : the muscular male body in popular culture, 1860-1970
Title:
American hunks : the muscular male body in popular culture, 1860-1970
Author:
Chapman, David L., 1948-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Flexed for success : consumer goods, pop culture, and the selling of heroic masculinity / Brett Josef Grubisic -- The pioneers, 1860-1914 -- Hunks make the world safe, 1914-1919 -- Jazz-age athletes, 1920-1929 -- Depression physiques, 1930-1940 -- Supermen at war, 1941-1949 -- The age of the chest, 1950-1959 -- Muscles à go-go!, 1960-1969.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781551522562
Format :
Book
