Hard hats, rednecks, and macho men: class in 1970s American cinema

Introduction: Making class visible in film and cultural studies

Class and the youth-cult cycle

Deliverance, an allegory of the Sunbelt

Keep on truckin' : the Southern cycle and the invention of the good ole boy

Saturday night fever and the queering of the white working-class male body

Extra masculinity : Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Cruising

Conclusion: Working-class solidarity and its others

Afterword: Hard hats revisited : the labor of 9/11.