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
