New heroes on screen

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NEW HEROES ON SCREEN: PROTOTYPES OF (...); LEGAL; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I GENDER AND CINEMA; CHAPTER 1: MEN'S STUDIES AND THE REVISION OF; 1.1 MEN'S MOVEMENTS AND MEN'S STUDIES; 1.2 THE HISTORY OF MASCULINITY; 1.3 REVISED IMAGES OF MASCULINITY IN (...); CHAPTER 2: IMAGES OF MEN IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA; 2.1 FILM THEORIES ON MASCULINITY; 2.2 MASCULINITY IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA; 2.2.1 THE TRADITIONAL HERO; 2.2.2 HEROES ON SCREEN; CHAPTER 3: GENDER AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY; 3.1 GENDER, POSTMODERNISM AND SCIENCE-FICTION; 3.2 CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE-FICTION HEROES 3.2.1 THE 80S AND MECHANICAL CYBORGS3.2.2 THE 90S AND VIRTUAL HEROES; II FILM FOCUS: LYNCH'S DUNE (1984) AND (...); CHAPTER 4: DUNE: A SITE FOR AMBIVALENT (...); 4.1 US SOCIAL REFLECTIONS IN DUNE; 4.2 GENDER RELATIONS IN DUNE; 4.2.1 CALADAN: A HIERARCHY OF MALE POWER; 4.2.2 GIEDI PRIME: THE HOME OF ABHORRENT (...); 4.2.3 THE EMPIRE AND THE INSISTENCE ON (...); 4.2.4 ARRAKIS OR DUNE: A NATURAL PLACE (...); 4.3 THE HERO: PAUL; 4.3.1 PAUL: A HERO BEYOND MUSCLES; 4.3.2 PAUL AND HIS QUEST; CHAPTER 5: TBE MATRIX: MASCULINITIES BEYOND (...); 5.1 POSTMODERNISM, TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER (...) 5.1.1 THE MATRIX: A VIRTUAL HALLUCINATION5.1.2 THE DESERT OF THE REAL: THE ULTIMATE; 5.1.3 INTERTEXTUALITY IN TBE MATRIX; 5.2 MASCULINITY BEYOND BORDERS: NEO; 5.2.1 GENDER TRANSGRESSIONS IN TBE MATRIX; 5.2.2 THE HERO: NEO; III CONCLUSIONS; IV WORKS CITED