Affirmative Reaction - New Formations of White Masculinity

Informationen zum Autor Hamilton Carroll Klappentext Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Zusammenfassung Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation 1 Part I. 9-11/24-7>1. Jack Bauer's Extraordinary Rendition: Neoliberal Melodrama and the Ethics of Torture 27 2. Future Perfect: "Everyday Heroes" and the New Exceptionalism 49 Part II. Embodying Difference>3. Men's Soaps: Automotive Television Programming and Contemporary Working-Class Masculinities 77 4. "My Skin Is It Startin' to Work in My Benefit Now?": Eminem's White Trash Aesthetic 101 Part III. Daddy's Home>5. The Fighting Irish: Ethnic Whiteness and Million Dollar Baby 131 6. Romancing the Nation: Family Melodrama and the Sentimental Logics of Neoliberalism 157 Notes 181 Bibliography 201 Index 213

Product details

• Authors: Hamilton Carroll, Hamilton/ Pease Carroll
• Assisted by: Donald E. Pease (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2011
• EAN: 9780822349297
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4929-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore