| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Watching Politics | |
| 1 | Body and Soul Murder: JFK | 3 |
| 2 | Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill and JFK | 23 |
| 3 | Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics | 40 |
| 4 | Watching and Authorizing the Gulf War | 57 |
| Watching Borders | |
| 5 | "No Bad Nigger": Blacks as the Ethical Principle in the Movies | 77 |
| 6 | Cortez in the Courts: The Traps of Translation from Newsprint to Film | 91 |
| 7 | Power Shortages: The Soviet Coup and Hurricane Bob | 117 |
| Watching Sex | |
| 8 | Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Identity, and Gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case | 137 |
| 9 | Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused | 160 |
| 10 | Throwing Up/Going Down: Bushusuru; or, The Fall of the West | 167 |
| 11 | Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs | 181 |
| Watching AIDS | |
| 12 | Grafting David Cronenberg: Monstrosity, AIDS Media, National/Sexual Difference | 209 |
| 13 | Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the Plague Metaphor | 232 |
| 14 | Accommodating Magic | 255 |
| Index | 267 |
| Contributors | 277 |