A significant contribution to an understanding of the variety of masculine representations in British films during a period of social, cultural and industrial turbulence. It also contributes to the literature on masculinity and should become required reading for students and scholars investigating the politics of gender and its intersection with ethnicity, class and national identity.

- Andrew Spicer, Journal of British Cinema and Television

Bringing an era of profound disruption and social and cultural change into view, this book offers a rich account of the ways in which cinema represents 1990s and millennial British masculinity. Sarah Godfrey’s Masculinity in British Cinema is essential reading for researchers interested in questions of gender, class and national identity.

- John Mercer, Birmingham City University,

With this analysis of masculinity in British cinema at the turn of the century, Godfrey is both wide ranging and sharply focused, considering the representations of British men from lad culture to the margins, and in relation to fatherhood, class, race and violence.
Godfrey goes deep into meaningful filmic examples, setting them at the intersections of neoliberalism and postfeminism, and within the industrial context of British cinema in a particularly fruitful period when it challenged and reinvented masculine archetypes.　
This feminist intervention is a compelling analysis of British men in postfeminist movies, and a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary discourses of intersectional masculinity.

- Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of London,