Books by David Greven

The ABC TV series The Bionic Woman was a 1970s pop culture phenomenon. This book links the series to classical mythology, first-wave feminist literature, and the Hollywood 'woman's film', to place The Bionic Woman in a tradition of feminist ethics deeply concerned with autonomy, community, and the rights of animals.

Examining the intertextual reverberations between canonical Hitchcock films and the New Hollywood of the 1970s, this revisionist reading challenges the received opinion of misogyny, racism, and homophobia presented in male desire featured in works by Hitc

A study of the struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood that defined Hollywood masculinity from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls 'gender protest' in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows.

This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings.

A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.

This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings.