High contrast: race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film

Part I: Battles of the sexes – Mutilated masculinities and their prostheses: Die hards and lethal weapons – Inside out: Public and private exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct – Combative femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 – Part II: Ethnographies of the “white” gaze – Do the wrong thing: David Lynch’s perverse style – Tell the right story: Spike Lee and the politics of representative style – Borrowed “style”: Quentin Tarantino’s figures of masculinity.