Introduction / Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward -- 1. Bad boys and Hollywood hype : gendered conflict in juvenile delinquency films / Timothy Shary -- 2. Boys won't be boys : cross-gender masquerade and queer agency in Ma Vie en rose / Cordula Quint -- 3. Survival of the fattest : contending with the fat boy in children's ensemble films / Jerry Mosher -- 4. Crazy from the heat : southern boys and coming of age / Mary B. O'Shea -- 5. "Perfect childhoods" : Larry Clark puts boys onscreen / Sudhir Mahadevan -- 6. The beautiful English boy : Mark Lester and Oliver! / Dianne Brooks -- 7. The man-boys of Steven Spielberg / Murray Pomerance -- 8. In love and trouble : teenage boys and interracial romance / Frances Gateward -- 9. The "wee men" of Glasgow grow up : boyhood and urban space in Small faces / Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd -- 10. The boys' price in Martinique : visions of the Bildungsroman in Sugar cane alley / Tarshia L. Stanley --
- 11. Portrait of the artist as a young boy : Francois Truffaut, Antoine Doinel, and the wild child / Patrick E. White -- 12. Out west : Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho and the lost mother / Matthew Tinkcom -- 13. Mamma's boy : counting on ghosts, sending smoke signals, and finding surrogate fathers in contemporary film / Nicole Marie Keating -- 14. Slack, slacker, slackest : homosocial bonding practices in contemporary dude cinema / John Troyer and Chani Marchiselli -- 15. Pursuits of hapa-ness : Kip Fulbeck's boyhood among ghosts / Gina Marchetti -- 16. Cinematic solutions to the truancy trend among Japanese boys / Christopher Ames -- 17. L.I.E., The believer, and the sexuality of the Jewish boy / Steven Alan Carr -- 18. The feminization and victimization of the African American athlete in Boyz N the hood, Cooley High, and Cornbread, Earl and me / Charlene Regester -- 19. Bombay boys : dissolving the male child in popular Hindi cinema / Corey K. Creekmur --
- 20. Jerkus interruptus : the terrible trials of masturbating boys in recent Hollywood cinema / Steven Jay Schneider
