BUYING INTO SOCIAL CLASS

Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris: Introduction
Timothy SHARY: "The only place to go is inside": Confusions about Sexuality and Class from Kids to Superbad
Thomas E. WARTENBERG: "What's a smart boy like you doing in a class like this?" Intelligence and Class in Good Will Hunting
Douglas KELLNER: Fashion, Advertising, and the Consumer Society
Stuart EWEN: The Public Mind and the Pictures in Our Heads: A Riff
Curtis MALOLEY: "American Idol"atry: The Practice of Democracy in the Age of Reality Television

THE GENDERS OF POPULAR CULTURE

Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris: Introduction
John SAKERIS: From "Ellen" to Brüno: The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name Goes Big
Kristen HATCH: Girl Meets Boy: Romantic Comedies After Feminism
Fred Turner: This Is for Fighting, This Is for Fun: Camerawork and Gunplay in Reality-Based Crime Shows
Michael DeANGELIS : The Completely Accessible Star Persona of Mr. Keanu Reeves
Tison PUGH: Gus Van Sant's History of Homosexuality
Jennifer BRAYTON: Virtually Getting It On: "Sex" in Film and Television Narratives, 1992-2010

RACE FOR THE SCREEN

Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris: Introduction
Susan WHITE: "I felt like, 'This guy's really hurting me.' And it hurt.": Funny Men in Pain from Zoolander to Anchorman
Cynthia FUCHS: "Get your mind right": Juvenile Renewed
Peter CLANDFIELD: "We're all quite small, really": Races, Classes, Globalisms in "Heroes"
Susan Searls GIROUX and Henry A. GIROUX: On Seeing and Not Seeing Race: Crash and the Politics of Bad Faith

SCREENED IDEOLOGIES

Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris: Introduction
Fiona WHITTINGTON-WALSH: "Extreme Makeover" and the Magical, Mystical Spectacle of Rebirth
Stephen L. MUZZATTI: They Sing the Body Ecstatic: Television Commercials and Captured Music
Kirby FARRELL: Aliens Amok: Men in Black Policing Subjectivity Onscreen
Dan STREIBLE: The Wonderful, Horrible Films of Paul Verhoeven
Linda ROBERTSON: Air Wars Live from (Baghdad)2
William HOYNES: Embedded: The News of War and the War Over News
Graeme METCALF: A Spanish Summer Spreads Around the World: Hoop Dreams and Globalization
Christopher SHARRETT: American Sundown: No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and the Question of the Twilight Western

CULTURAL MOMENTS

Murray Pomerance/John Sakeris: Introduction
Angela Ndalianis: Return of the Horror Apocalypse
Sean Springer: Looking for Laughs in All the Wrong Places: Quentin Tarantino and the Holocaust
Dominic Lennard: "I have the stuff that you want": Michael Jackson and the Crotch Shot
Julie Turnock: From Star Wars to Avatar: Contemporary Special Effects, Industrial Light and Magic, and the Legacy of the 1970s
Thomas Doherty: Terra Incognita