Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen

Elwood Watson is a professor of history and African American studies at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      PART I: RACIALIZED MEDIATED PERFORMANCE AND CONTEMPORARY MASCULINITY1. The Dilemma of the Italian American MaleMarc DiPaolo      2. Patrick Bateman as “Average White Male” in American PsychoDaniel Mudie Cunningham      3. Ambivalence, Desire and the Re-Imagining of Asian American Masculinity in Better Luck TomorrowRuthann Lee      4. The Black Interior, Reparations and African American Masculinity in The WizJesse Scott      5. Flavor of Love and the Rise of Neo-Minstrelsy on Reality TelevisionValerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc      6. Jungle Fever: Bold, Beautiful and Unnecessarily MalignedDaryl A. Carter      7. Celebrity Culture and Racial Masculinities: The Case of Will SmithDavid Magill      PART II: CONTEMPORARY MEDIATED PERFORMANCE AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MASCULINITY8. Constructions of Mathematical Masculinities in Popular CultureMarie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein9. Killing Off White Hegemonic Masculinity in Indian KillerJane E. Rose      10. Narrative’s Role in Constructing Masculinities in We Were SoldiersBradley Smith      11. Masculinity and Domesticity in A Home at the End of the World and HousehusbandHelena Wahlstrom      12. Anxious Male Domesticity and Gender Troubled CorrectionsKristin Jacobson      13. Neil LaBute’s Bodies in QuestionMarc Shaw      14. O.J. Simpson: Tabloidized, Sexualized, Racialized and Largely DespisedElwood Watson      15. Major League Baseball and the Cultural Politics of SexualityRachelle Sussman      About the Contributors      Index