Affirmative Reaction
New Formations of White Masculinity
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2011
232 pages
978-0-8223-9387-0 (ISBN)
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Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States.
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Hamilton Carroll is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation 1
Part I. 9-11/24-7
Affective Time and the War on Terror
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
Whiteness, Class, and the Postindustrial Subject
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
Family Melodrama and the Fictions of State
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
Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation 1
Part I. 9-11/24-7
Affective Time and the War on Terror
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
Whiteness, Class, and the Postindustrial Subject
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
Family Melodrama and the Fictions of State
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
