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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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New Over*Flow! Kathryn Hartzell examines AI Olympic Ads from Summer '24, identifying a dissonance in the ads' narratives that highlight tensions around AI's relationship to creativity, concerns over increased precarity in media industries & more. Read at http://tinyurl.com/mr2rzzeh

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Michael Z. Newman explores the convergence of TV & TikTok, arguing that the platform embodies television’s fragmentary logic & attention-driven economy, transforming late night shows like After Midnight into viral, internet-native content.

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Andrew Stubbs-Lacy's column examines Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer on AppleTV+, exploring how its production and promotion as a “cinematic” auteur-driven series reflect broader industry strategies. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/yc6cckya

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Roderik Smits explores how AI is shaping the landscape of film programming and distribution.

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