Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward
  • 1. Bad boys and Hollywood hype : gendered conflict in juvenile delinquency films / Timothy Shary
  • 2. Boys won't be boys : cross-gender masquerade and queer agency in Ma Vie en rose / Cordula Quint
  • 3. Survival of the fattest : contending with the fat boy in children's ensemble films / Jerry Mosher
  • 4. Crazy from the heat : southern boys and coming of age / Mary B. O'Shea
  • 5. "Perfect childhoods" : Larry Clark puts boys onscreen / Sudhir Mahadevan
  • 6. The beautiful English boy : Mark Lester and Oliver! / Dianne Brooks
  • 7. The man-boys of Steven Spielberg / Murray Pomerance
  • 8. In love and trouble : teenage boys and interracial romance / Frances Gateward
  • 9. The "wee men" of Glasgow grow up : boyhood and urban space in Small faces / Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd
  • 10. The boys' price in Martinique : visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar cane alley / Tarshia L. Stanley
  • 11. Portrait of the artist as a young boy : Francois Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the wild child / Patrick E. White
  • 12. Out west : Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho and the lost mother / Matthew Tinkcom
  • 13. Mamma's boy : counting on ghosts, sending smoke signals, and finding surrogate fathers in contemporary film / Nicole Marie Keating
  • 14. Slack, slacker, slackest : homosocial bonding practices in contemporary dude cinema / John Troyer and Chani Marchiselli
  • 15. Pursuits of hapa-ness : Kip Fulbeck's boyhood among ghosts / Gina Marchetti
  • 16. Cinematic solutions to the truancy trend among Japanese boys / Christopher Ames
  • 17. L.I.E., The believer, and the sexuality of the Jewish boy / Steven Alan Carr
  • 18. The feminization and victimization of the African American athlete in Boyz N the hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and me / Charlene Regester
  • 19. Bombay boys : dissolving the male child in popular Hindi cinema / Corey K. Creekmur
  • 20. Jerkus interruptus : the terrible trials of masturbating boys in recent Hollywood cinema / Steven Jay Schneider.