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Book Review: Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century

standing of individual texts alongside their cumulative effect on viewers. White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood’s Fin de Millennium Cinema is a valuable text for readers seeking a detailed account of both how masculinities evolved over the course of the final decades of the twentieth century and how the popular cinema of a particular year reckoned with this evolution. However, any review of Deakin’s text would be remiss in failing to note the boundaries imposed by its own title. White masculinity is an inherently relational concept, and Deakin’s text falls somewhat short in its consideration of the complicated and fluid configurations of power existing within the racial hierarchy of masculinity witnessed throughout the era. Though Deakin’s conclusion addresses this limitation, I still felt as if I was exiting the text with a portion of the story left untold. Despite this, White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood’s Fin de Millennium Cinema makes good of its titular promise of providing a balanced, insightful reading of the cinematic representation of the tensions confronting white masculinity at the end of the twentieth century.