Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-270) and index. Includes filmography: p. 271-272.
Contents:
The politics of the "white male as victim" -- Losing ground : representations of white male disenfranchisement in Anglo-American popular cinema -- Literalizing the wound : paternal melodramas, masochism, and white heterosexual masculinity in popular U.S. cinema -- Coming apart at the seams? : white heterosexual masculinity and the body in popular cinema -- Fleshing out white heterosexual masculinity : the objectified and commodified white male body -- Terminal bodies and Cartesian trips : white heterosexual masculinity in cyberfantasies -- Queering white heterosexual masculinity : cross-dressing and transgender cinema -- White skin, black masks? : male "wiggers" in contemporary popular cinema -- Marking white male violence : the gangster and the serial killer -- White male violence in Quentin Tarantiono's gangster films -- Everyman and no man : white masculinity in contemporary serial killer movies.
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