Table of Contents

Introduction Ideology and Masculinity l The Dominant Fiction 2 Historical Trauma and Male Subjectivity. The Gaze and the Look 3 Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of Gaze, Look and Image 4 Too Early/Too Late: Male Subjectivity and the Primal Scene. Masochism 5 Masochism and Male Subjectivity 6 Masochistic Ecstasy and the Ruination of Masculinity in Fassbinder's Cinema. Libidinal Politics 7 White Skins, Brown Masks: The Double Mimesis, or With Lawrence in Arabia 8 A Woman's Soul Enclosed in a Man's Body: Femininity in Male Homosexuality

About the Author

Kaja Silverman teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.