Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Sherrie Gradin
  • Introduction: Popular Culture and the Emancipatory Critic
  • Pt. 1. Spenser. Ch. 1. The Hardboiled Hero. Ch. 2. The Liberal Hero. Ch. 3. Violence and Need. Ch. 4. The Missing Mother
  • Pt. 2. Rambo. Ch. 5. From First Blood to First Blood. Ch. 6. The Hurt, Betrayed Son. Ch. 7. Surrender
  • Pt. 3. Springsteen. Ch. 8. The Dark Street. Ch. 9. Healing the Father. Ch. 10. Displaced Mothers
  • Conclusion: The Hero Myth
  • Love song
  • Living in paradise
  • Reborn
  • Breathing again
  • The giant
  • Songs: Love song
  • Living in paradise
  • Reborn
  • Breathing again
  • The giant
  • Songs: Love song
  • Living in paradise
  • Reborn
  • Breathing again
  • The giant
  • Songs: Love song
  • Living in paradise
  • Reborn
  • Breathing again
  • The giant