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Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe

Peter Lehman is the Director of the Center for Film Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is author of Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body, New Edition and Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity and coauthor of Thinking about Movies: Watching Questioning, Enjoying, Third Edition; Blake Edwards; Returning to the Scene, Blake Edwards, Vol. 2.; and Authorship and Narrative in the Cinema. He is editor of Pornography: Film and Culture, Defining Cinema, and Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism and coeditor of The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western. He is a former president of the Society for Film and Media Studies.

Hung in America
Peter Lehman/Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College

November 1, 2009 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 4 comments

Despite this strong affirmation of the well-hung body guy, Hung lays down the basis of a serious critique, one that at the conclusion of the first season may be a lost opportunity.

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Still Hanging
Peter Lehman, Arizona State University and Susan Hunt, Santa Monica College

August 21, 2009 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 2 comments

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Hanging by a Thread
Peter Lehman/Arizona State University & Susan Hunt/Santa Monica College

July 10, 2009 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 3 comments

For better and worse, the body guy’s big penis is all he has left on the new HBO series Hung.

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Observe and Report What?
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College

May 16, 2009 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 3 comments

A consideration of masculinity, perversity and the spectacle of the penis in the new Jody Hill film Observe and Report.

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“You Can be Dead but You’re Never Really Dead”: Six Feet, Six Inches Under
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College

March 5, 2009 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 8 comments

by Peter Lehman / Arizona State University -Tempe & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College

A look at sex and the body guy in life and death on the television series Six Feet Under.

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Californication: Trouble in Body Guy Paradise
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College

December 11, 2008 Peter Lehman / Arizona State University - Tempe 8 comments

A look at sex, masculinity and “the body guy” in Californication.

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Anna Lovatt traces how artists from Mimi Smith to Letícia Parente used television and video to redraw the boundaries between art, media, and everyday life. The column reveals how the “screen age” has transformed drawing

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Helen Piper examines the show The Assembly and compares the UK & Australian versions. In doing so, she reveals how format and post-production choices shape risk, reciprocity, and the politics of inclusion.

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