Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PREFACE: THE UNCOOL MOTHER xi
4. 1 QUENTIN TARANTINO: ANATOMY OF COOL 1
5. 2 SPIKE LEE AND BRIAN DE PALMA: SCENARIOS OF RACE AND RAPE 17
6. 3 EDWARD SAID: GENDER, CULTURE, AND IMPERIALISM 36
7. 4 ANDREW ROSS: THE ROMANCE OF THE BAD BOY 54
8. 5 HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.: FIGURES IN BLACK MASCULINITY 84
9. 6 QUEER THEORY AND THE SECOND SEX 122
10. POSTSCRIPT: DOING THE RIGHT THING 156
11. NOTES 161
12. WORKS CITED 191
13. INDEX 205