Contents
Introduction: Wow!
Part I: The Lively Arts
1 Games, the New Lively Art
2 Monstrous Beauty and Mutant Aesthetics: Rethinking Matthew Barney’s Relation to the Horror Genre
Part II: The Immediate Experience
3 Death-Defying Heroes
4 Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
5 Exploiting Feminism in Stephanie Rothman’s Terminal Island
6 “You Don’t Say That in English!”: The Scandal of Lupe Velez
Part III: Welcome to the Playground
7 “Going Bonkers!”: Children, Play, and Pee-Wee
8 “Complete Freedom of Movement”: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces
9 “Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty”: The Sentimental Value of Lassie
Notes
Index
About the Author