1. Introduction: The Uses of Identity in Post-Reagan Hollywood Film -- White Masculinity as Paternity: Michael Douglas, Fatherhood and the Uses of the American Family. Wall Street: Good capitalism and bad - The all-male family vs. homosexual seduction. Falling Down: Identity politics for straight white males. Disclosure: Virtual identities - sexual politics and Pacific Rim economics -- 2. Transactions in Race and Ethnicity: Positive, Negative and Interrogative Images of African Americans on Film. The function of race in constructions of American ethnicity. Negative, positive and interrogative images. 'The new racism' and cultural politics in the 1990s. Glory: African American history as male rites of passage. Tensioned and interlocking identities in Daughters of the Dust. Iconicity: Image and Narrative in Spike Lee's Malcolm X -- 3. Putting the Homo into America: Reconstructing Gay Identities in the National Frame. The Celluloid Closet and The Question of Equality: Reconstructing gay film history. Stonewall's romances of resistance. Tongues United and national narratives of black and gay identity. Swoon: murdering stereotypes. Go Fish: lesbian romances of resistance. Philadelphia: People like us? Conclusion: Aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day
