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This week's new comedy - The Guardian18th February 2012, 12:07am |
West End Centre, Aldershot, Sat; Assembly Rooms, Derby, Sun; Artrix, Bromsgrove, Thu; King George's Hall, Blackburn, Fri In recent times, we've seen lots of British stand-ups use comedy routines to talk about their fathers and, in so doing, ...
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Four Real Names of Famous Actors - Flickering Myth (blog)
15th February 2012, 6:39pm |
Flickering Myth (blog)Four Real Names of Famous ActorsFlickering Myth (blog)Now is probably a good time to start reassessing everything you've presumed about masculinity. John Wayne, the man's man, machismo in human form, entered this world as 'Marion'. Marion. Say it out loud, and what do you picture?
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Bow down before the sage from Mt Baldy - Financial Times
27th January 2012, 9:26pm |
It wasn't just a fetching fashion statement from a monk out of his monastery, it was a nod to a different kind of masculinity from the machismo that had got us into this mess. As taken aback by his success as the rest of us, Cohen wasn't trying to be…
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Alfie – review - The Guardian
27th January 2012, 6:27pm |
Of course it's obvious that Alfie, despite his endless stream of casual sexual conquests, is the real loser: opportunities for fatherhood and stable relationships pass him by, the consequences of his actions pile up, and mortality and age touch him on ...
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The roots of the riots: found in translation - Spiked
26th January 2012, 12:18pm |
A similar failing was at work in Channel 4's Gypsy Blood, which explored violence and masculinity in Britain's Traveller community. Aiming for the kind of serious documentary ethos that many complained was lacking from the smash-hit My Big Fat Gypsy ...
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Gypsy Blood, Channel 4 - Broadcast
20th January 2012, 1:22pm |
The backdrop of these fathers being gypsy bare-knuckle fighters is such an epic environment in which to study this relationship, to look at masculinity and all its intricacies and contradictions. Yes it's a story about gypsies, but it's much deeper ...
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Gypsy Blood on Channel 4 examines the violent culture passed from gypsy ... - Unreality TV
19th January 2012, 8:53am |
Gypsy Blood is a haunting study of masculinity, violence and the uneasy relationship gypsy and traveller men have with their bare-knuckle traditions, and an insight into people living amongst a wider society but sometimes with values that are a world ...
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Jay-Z – dropping the word 'bitch' doesn't begin to cover it - The Guardian
17th January 2012, 7:00pm |
And while I celebrate and congratulate his new fatherhood, this vow didn't impress me. It doesn't begin to address his role in contributing to and profiting from the global power of a hyper-sexist brand of hip-hop masculinity. ...
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David Lammy's lesson - New Statesman (blog)
10th December 2011, 9:40am |
In areas of deprivation, the model of dependable family men and masculine virtues of responsibility are scarce. Women have been left to shoulder the burdens of family and community without the prospect of trusted partners and good fathers. ...
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Ageing is not something to be defied - The Guardian (blog)
08th December 2011, 10:00pm |
Just as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon compete over who can do the best impersonation of Sir Michael Caine, the BBC2 comedy The Trip ruminates on ageing and its relationship to masculinity and the male body, fame and questions of success (or lack of). ...
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