Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Me Jane / Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim -- ...Viewer, I listened to him ... voices, masculinity, In the line of fire / Gill Branston -- Relations between men : Bernardo Bertolucci's The spider's stratagem / Lesley Caldwell -- Albert Finney : a working-class hero / Christine Geraghty -- Women reading men / Christine Gledhill -- Loving men : Frank Borzage, Charles Farrell and the reconstruction of masculinity in 1920s Hollywood cinema / Pat Kirkham -- Pedro Almodv̤ar's Tie me up, tie me down! : the mechanics of masculinity / Rikki Morgan -- Empire, identity and place : masculinities in Greystoke : the legend of Tarzan / Griselda Pollock -- 'Too straight a drive to the toolbooth' : masculinity, mortality and Al Pacino / Susannah Radstone -- Oscar Micheaux's multifaceted portrayals of the African-American male : the good, the bad and the ugly / Charlene Regester -- Melodrama and men in post-classical romantic comedy / Kathleen Rowe -- 'I don't know whether to look at him or read him' : Cape Fear and male scarification / Helen Stoddart -- Burt's neck : masculine corporeality and estrangement / Gillian Swanson -- 'Mad about the boy' : masculinity and career in Sunset Boulevard / Sarah Street --'Maybe he's tough but he sure ain't no carpenter' : masculinity and in/competence in Unforgiven / Janet Thumim -- From proletarian hero to godfather : Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity / Ginette Vincendeau -- Changing places? Men and women in Oliver Stone's Vietnam / Margaret O'Brien -- 'Nothing is as it seems' : re-viewing The crying game / Lola Young.