Introduction, Jim Collins, Hilary Radner, Ava Preacher Collins; Chapter 1 The New Hollywood, Thomas Schatz; Chapter 2 Reclaiming the Social, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 3 Pretty is as Pretty does, Hilary Radner; Chapter 4 The Unauthorized Auteur Today, Dudley Andrew; Chapter 5 Loose Canons, Ava Preacher Collins; Chapter 6 Spectacles of Death, Jeffrey Sconce; Chapter 7 Hardware and Hardbodies, What do Women Want?, Sharon Willis; Chapter 8 Thelma and Louise and the Cultural Generation of the New Butch-Femme, Cathy Griggers; Chapter 9 Taboos and Totems, Janet Staiger; Chapter 10 The Powers of Seeing and being Seen, Ann Cvetkovich; Chapter 11 Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle, Ed Guerrero; Chapter 12 Split Skins, Susan White; Chapter 13 The Big Switch, Susan Jeffords; Chapter 14 Between Apocalypse and Redemption, Michael Eric Dyson; Chapter 15 Making Cyborgs, Making Humans, Forest Pyle; Chapter 16 Genericity in the Nineties, Jim Collins;