During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a discourse of masculinity crisis precipitated the appearance of a number of what Susan Jeffords describes as ¿rearticulations of screen masculinity,¿ which influenced the production of a group of films whose narrative diegeses reaffirmed the heteronormative, hypermasculine façade onscreen. These films are identified and defined in this book as remasculation pictures, or narratives that showcase the herös oscillation between two oppositional expressions of screen masculinity. In the rhetoric of the remasculation film, the protagonist¿s emasculation initiates a quest to remasculate by reaffirming the dominance and authority of the hypermasculine archetype.

With a background in English Literature, Adam Miller obtained his Ph.D. in Communications and Culture with a specialty in Cinema Studies at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. As a professor at Sheridan College, Humber College, and Ryerson University, Adam continues his work in Film Studies.