Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
Introduction / Sam Griffin -- Stop the wedding! William Haines and the comedy of the closet / Victoria Sturtevant -- Flirting with hetero diversity: film promotion of A free soul / Mary Beth Haralovich -- "Pintele" queer: the performance of Jewish male heterosexuality in Yiddish American cinema of the Great Depression / David Lugowski -- Straight heroes with queer inclinations: male film stars in the Swedish 1930s / Louise Wallenberg -- Putting 'em down like a man: Eleanor Powell and the spectacle of competence / Adrienne L. McLean -- Turned inside/out: violent inversions of heterosexuality in Vincente Minnelli's Home from the hill / David A. Gerstner -- Mispronouncing "man and wife": the fate of marriage in Hollywood's sexual revolution / Michael DeAngelis -- Hetero-nation: toward a "new and improved" global public image / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Time crisis and the new postfeminist heterosexual economy / Diane Negra -- "Are you saying my son is a bitch boy?": the perilously achieved hegemonic masculinity of Ben Stiller / Kevin Heffernan -- "Fuck boy meets girl": heterosexual aspirations and masculine interests in the world of Quentin Tarantino / Allan Campbell -- A straight cowboy movie: heterosexuality according to Brokeback mountain / Harry M. Benshoff