Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Politics of the "White Male as Victim" -- 1 Losing Ground: Representations of White Male Disenfranchisement in Anglo-American Popular Cinema -- 2 Literalizing the Wound: Paternal Melodramas, Masochism, and White Heterosexual Masculinity in Popular U.S. Cinema -- Part 2 Coming Apart at the Seams? White Heterosexual Masculinity and the Body in Popular Cinema -- 3 Fleshing Out White Heterosexual Masculinity: The Objectified and Commodified White Male Body -- 4 Terminal Bodies and Cartesian Trips: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Cyberfantasies -- 5 Queering White Heterosexual Masculinity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Cinema -- 6 White Skin, Black Masks? Male "Wiggers" in Contemporary Popular Cinema -- Part 3 Marking White Male Violence: The Gangster and the Serial Killer -- 7 White Male Violence in Quentin Tarantino's Gangster Films -- 8 Everyman and No Man: White Masculinity in Contemporary Serial Killer Movies -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Select Filmography -- Index -- About the Author.