Required Course Texts
MacDonald, Michael Patrick. All Souls: A Family Story from Southie. Ballantine Books, 2000. ISBN: 034544177X
Proulx, Annie and Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay. Scribner, 2005. ISBN: 0743294165
Tupac Shakur: Resurrection. Atria; Reprint edition, 2006. ISBN: 074347435X
Walker, Rebecca, ed. What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future. Riverhead Trade, 2005. ISBN: 1594480680
Handouts distributed in class or via PDF
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Doubleday: Garden City, New York, 1959. (excerpt)
Harris, Adrienne. “Tomboys’ Stories.” Gender as Soft Assembly. Analytic Press, 2005.
Ross, Andrew. “The Gangsta and the Diva.” Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1995. (excerpt)
Newell, Walter. The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country. Regan Books, 2003. (excerpt)
Moore, Stephen D. and Janice Capel Anderson. “Jesus’ Masculinity in Matthew.” New Testament Masculinities. Semeia Studies, 2003.
New Testament: Gospel of Matthew.
Virgil’s Aeneid (excerpts)
Reviews and articles on Brokeback Mountain.
Films (preliminary list)
Jarhead
Brokeback Mountain
Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel
The Full Monty
American History X
