Table of Contents

Introduction - the uses of identity in post-Reagan Hollywood; white masculinity as paternity - Michael Douglas, father, and the uses of the American family; transactions in race and ethnicity - positive, negative and interrogative images of African Americans on film; putting the homo into America - reconstructing gay film in the national frame; conclusion - aliens from "Star Wars" to "Independence Day".

About the Author

Jude Davies is a Principal Lecturer in American Studies and English at University College, Winchester. He is co-author of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film (EUP, 1997) and author of Diana, A Cultural History (Palgrave, 2001).