Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: When Hollywood Masculinity Became Self-Aware -- Chapter One. Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush -- Chapter Two. An Ill-Fated Bacchanal: Casualties of War and the Horror of the Homosocial -- Chapter Three. Male Medusas and Female Heroes: Fetishism and Ambivalence in The Silence of the Lambs -- Chapter Four. The Hollywood Man Date: Split Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film -- Chapter Five. Destroying Something Beautiful: Narcissism, Male Violence, and the Homosocial in Fight Club -- Chapter Six. "Am I Blue?" Vin Diesel and Multiracial Male Sexuality -- Chapter Seven. The Devil Wears Abjection: The Passion of the Christ -- Chapter Eight. Narcissus Transfigured: Brokeback Mountain -- Epilogue: The Reign of Masochism -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.