Books
March, 1978
Granted, women have been consistently overshadowed by the male hero in American films. And granted, the male hero has been represented onscreen as tough, unemotional and stereotypical in his associations with the opposite sex. Unfortunately, author Joan Mellon, in her tedious study Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film (Pantheon), fails to get to the root of the problem, if, indeed, it is one, preferring simply to examine the various mutations of the male hero throughout the history o...
