CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself 1
5. PART 1 Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity
6. 1 Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era 23
7. 2 Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body 55
8. 3 "Real American History": Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era 79
9. PART 2 Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era
10. 4 Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet 107
11. 5 Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity 135
12. 6 A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form 160
13. Conclusion: The Work of Transformation 191
14. Notes 199
15. Index 237