Hamilton Carroll

Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity

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Produktbeschreibung

Hamilton Carroll is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds.

Produktdetails

• New Americanists
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349488
• ISBN-10: 0822349485
• Artikelnr.: 32469706

Autorenporträt

Hamilton Carroll

Inhaltsangabe

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