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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author- Spectator ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Introduction: agents of our own lives, centers of our own stories 1
6. 1 A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: race, sex, and class in American crime story: the assassination of Gianni Versace 41
7. 2 The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: queer Asian American youth in spa night and driveways 81
8. 3 Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: the blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117
9. 4 The Courage to Compose Oneself: healthy narcissism and self-sovereignty in yellow rose 151
10. 5 The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: cultural complexes in the half of it 186
11. In Closing: the power of films about racial childhoods in the time of rampant death 208
12. Notes 213
13. Bibliography 223
14. Index 233