List of Illustrations Introduction Sean Griffin 1. Stop the Wedding! William Haines and the Comedy of the Closet Victoria Sturtevant 2. Flirting with Hetero Diversity: Film Promotion of A Free Soul Mary Beth Haralovich 3. "Pintele" Queer: The Performance of Jewish Male Heterosexuality in Yiddish American Cinema of the Great Depression David Lugowski 4. Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations: Male Film Stars in the Swedish 1930s Louise Wallenberg 5. Putting 'Em Down Like a Man: Eleanor Powell and the Spectacle of Competence Adrienne L. McLean 6. Turned Inside/Out: Violent Inversions of Heterosexuality in Vincente Minnelli's Home from the Hill David A.

Gerstner 7. Mispronouncing "Man and Wife": The Fate of Marriage in Hollywood's Sexual Revolution Michael DeAngelis 8. Hetero-nation: Toward a "New and Improved" Global Public Image Bhaskar Sarkar 9. Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Heterosexual Economy Diane Negra 10. "Are You Saying My Son Is a Bitch Boy?": The Perilously Achieved Hegemonic Masculinity of Ben Stiller Kevin Heffernan 11. "Fuck Boy Meets Girl": Heterosexual Aspirations and Masculine Interests in the World of Quentin Tarantino Allan Campbell 12. A Straight Cowboy Movie: Heterosexuality According to Brokeback Mountain Harry M. Benshoff Works Cited List of Contributors Index.