Acting Like a Man.

Examines the models of masculine identity delineated by the 1946 film 'My Darling Clementine.' Reading of the film in terms of the structures of triangular desire; Logical interdependence of male homosociality, homosexuality and homophobia in English literature; Theories of male sex-role identity being constructed by psychiatry and the social sciences before and after the time of the film's release.