Table of Contents

Introduction: The Uses of Identity in Post-Reagan Hollywood Film; Chapter 1 White Masculinity as Paternity: Michael Douglas, Fatherhood and the Uses of the American Family; Chapter 2 Transactions in Race and Ethnicity: Positive, Negative and Interrogative Images of African Americans on Film; Chapter 3 Putting the Homo into America:Reconstructing Gay Identities in the National Frame; conclusion Conclusion: Aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day;

About the Author

Jude Davies, Carol R. Smith