K.B. Chapman spent over three years studying and analyzing the filmography of Adam Sandler in preparation for her Master’s Thesis. In Modeling Manhood: Adam Sandler’s Portrayals of Masculinity and Manhood, she provides a concise look into the thinking behind the films. Her analyzation of Sandler's characters and the females he is attracted to in each film became a study in gender dynamics. Chapman avoids typical feminist rhetoric, looking instead through a lens of intelligent common-sense reasoning about day to day performances of masculinity in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. This book is invaluable to students of gender, sociology, psychology, and film, as well as news and entertainment reporters and critics.
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