Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films

"In Shadows of Doubt, Barry Keith Grant moves through virtually the entire history of American cinema, from the silents to the new millennium. Grant demonstrates both the ubiquity of masculinist ideals in American cinema and some key texts that challenge these notions within mainstream genre forms."-David Desser, professor of cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Barry Keith Grant is a professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author or editor of many books, including Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology, 100 Documentary Films (with Jim Hillier), and Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (with Jeannette Sloniowski; Wayne State University Press, 1998), and has served as editor-in-chief of the four-volume Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.