Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle.
Acknowledgments vii(2) Introduction ix Watching Politics 3(74)
1. Body and Soul Murder: JFK 3(20) Michael Rogin
2. Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK 23(17) Marjorie Garber
3. Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics 40(17) Rebecca L. Walkowitz
4. Watching and Authorizing the Gulf War 57(20) Elaine Scarry Watching Borders 77(60)
5. No Bad Nigger: Blacks as the Ethical Principle in the Movies 77(14) K. Anthony Appiah
6. Cortez in the Courts: The Traps of Translation from Newsprint to Film 91(26) Doris Sommer
7. Power Shortages: The Soviet Coup and Hurricane Bob 117(20) Svetlana Boym Watching Sex 137(72)
8. Scandals of Naming: The Blue Blob, Identity, and Gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case 137(23) Jann Matlock
9. Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused 160(7) Barbara Johnson
10. Throwing Up/Going Down: Bushusuru; or, The Fall of the West 167(14) Lee Edelman
11. Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs 181(28) Diana Fuss Watching AIDS 209(58)
12. Grafting David Cronenberg: Monstrosity, AIDS Media, National/Sexual Difference 209(23) Andrew Parker
13. Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the Plague Metaphor 232(23) Katharine Park
14. Accommodating Magic 255(12) Douglas Crimp Index 267(10) Contributors 277
Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
