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Introduction xi
Buying into Social Class
Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris
Introduction 3
1 Timothy Shary
“The only place to go is inside”:
Confusions about Sexuality and Class
from Kids to Superbad 5
2 Thomas E. Wartenberg
“What’s a smart boy like you doing in
a class like this?”: Intelligence and Class
in Good Will Hunting 15
3 Douglas Kellner
Fashion, Advertising, and the Consumer
Society 25
4 Stuart Ewen
The Public Mind and the Pictures
in Our Heads: A Riff 35
5 Curtis Maloley
“American Idol”atry: The Practice
of Democracy in the Age of Reality
Television 43
The Genders of Popular Culture
Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris
Introduction 53
6 John Sakeris
From “Ellen” to Brüno: The Love That
Dared Not Speak Its Name Goes Big 55
7 Kristen Hatch
Girl Meets Boy: Romantic Comedies
After Feminism 65
Contents
8 Fred Turner
This Is for Fighting, This Is for Fun: Camerawork and Gunplay
in Reality-Based Crime Shows 75
9 Michael DeAngelis
The Completely Accessible Star Persona of Mr. Keanu Reeves 87
10 Tison Pugh
Gus Van Sant’s History of Homosexuality 101
11 Jennifer Brayton
Virtually Getting It On: “Sex” in Film and Television Narratives,
1992—2010 109
Race for the Screen
Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris
Introduction 123
12 Susan White
“I felt like, ‘This guy’s really hurting me.’ And it hurt.”: Funny
Men in Pain from Zoolander to Anchorman 125
13 Cynthia Fuchs
“Get your mind right”: Juvenile Renewed 135
14 Peter Clandfield
“We’re all quite small, really”: Races, Classes,
Globalisms in “Heroes” 147
15 Susan Searls Giroux and Henry A. Giroux
On Seeing and Not Seeing Race: Crash and the Politics
of Bad Faith 159
Screened Ideologies
Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris
Introduction 177
16 Fiona Whittington-Walsh
Beautiful Ever After: “Extreme Makeover” and the Magical,
Mythical Spectacle of Rebirth 179
17 Stephen L. Muzzatti
They Sing the Body Ecstatic: Television Commercials and
Captured Music 191
18 Kirby Farrell
Aliens Amok: Men in Black Policing Subjectivity Onscreen 201
19 Dan Streible
The Wonderful, Horrible Films of Paul Verhoeven 213
20 Linda Robertson
Air Wars Live from (Baghdad)2 225
21 William Hoynes
Embedded: The News of War and the War Over News 243
22 Graeme Metcalf
A Spanish Summer Spreads Around the World: Hoop Dreams
and Globalization 253
23 Christopher Sharrett
American Sundown: No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
and the Question of the Twilight Western 261
Cultural Moments
Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris
Introduction 271
24 Angela Ndalianis
Return of the Horror Apocalypse 273
25 Sean Springer
Looking for Laughs in All the Wrong Places: Quentin Tarantino
and the Holocaust 283
26 Dominic Lennard
“I have the stuff that you want”: Michael Jackson and the Crotch
Shot 293
27 Julie Turnock
From Star Wars to Avatar: Contemporary Special Effects,
Industrial Light and Magic, and the Legacy of the 1970s 301
28 Thomas Doherty
Terra Incognita 313
Contributors 325
Index 331
