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Introduction: "Re-Vision"?: Feminist Film Criticism in the Twenty-first Century, Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer I. Masculinity in Question 1. "The First Bond Who Bleeds, Literally and Metaphorically": Gendered Spectatorship for ‘Pretty Boy’ Action Movies, Janet Staiger 2. Queer Memories and Universal Emotions: A Single Man (2009), Michael DeAngelis 3. "Lad Flicks": Discursive Reconstructions of Masculinity in Popular Film, David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill 4. Transamerica (2005): The Road to the Multiplex after New Queer Cinema, Gary Needham II. New Feminine Subjects: A Space for Women? 5. Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism, Yvonne Tasker 6. Neoliberal Femininity in Miss Congeniality (2000), Yael D Sherman 7. Girls’ Sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Universe: Feminist Challenges and Missed Opportunities, Sarah Projansky 8. Michael Clayton (2007): Women Lawyers Betrayed - Again, Taunya Lovell Banks 9. Crossing Race, Crossing Sex in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham (2002): Managing Anxiety in Multicultural Britain, Mridula Nath Chakraborty 10. Speaking the Name of the Father in the Neo-Romantic Comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004), Hilary Radner III. Consuming Culture(s) 11. No Country for Old Women: Gendering Cinema in Conglomerate Hollywood, Rob Schaap 12. Music and the Woman’s Film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Peter Stapleton 13. Independence at What Cost? Economics and Female Desire in Nicole Holofcener’s Friends With Money (2006), Michele Schreiber 14. The Feminist Poetics of Sophia Coppola: Spectacle and Self-Consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006), Christina Lane and Nicole Richter IV. Relationships, Identity and Family 15. "Eggs in Many Baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008) and the New Intimacies of Reproduction, Jane Maree Maher 16. Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): Negotiating (and Negating) Lesbian Sexuality in Popular Film, Kelly Kessler 17. "Die, Bridezilla, Die!": Bride Wars (2009), Wedding Envy and Chick Flicks, Heather Brook 18. Extreme Parenting: Recuperating Fatherhood in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005), Hannah Hamad V. Gender and Violence 19. Kinship and Racist Violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Ewa Ziarek 20. From Victim to Vigilante: Gender, Violence and Revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005), Rebecca Stringer 21. "When the Woman Looks": High Tension (2003) and the Horrors of Heteronormativity, Barry Keith Grant