Illustrations | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction. Bucking the Zeitgeist | p. 1 |
Glimpses of History | p. 25 |
Better Red than Dead (Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists) | p. 29 |
You Can't Go Home Again (Moscow on the Hudson) | p. 33 |
Confessions of a Misspent Youth (Withnail and I) | p. 38 |
The Blitz as a Lark (Hope and Glory) | p. 41 |
Tough Skin (Au Revoir les Enfants) | p. 46 |
Knowing and Being (Music Box) | p. 51 |
Facing Vietnam | p. 57 |
Kubrick and Vietnam (Full Metal Jacket) | p. 61 |
Feeling the Heat (Hamburger Hill) | p. 66 |
Protest Machismo (Born on the Fourth of July) | p. 69 |
DePalma in Vietnam (Casualties of War) | p. 73 |
Black and White | p. 85 |
Trashing Black Culture, Part I: The Director as Superstar (The Cotton Club) | p. 89 |
Trashing Black Culture, Part II: Steven Spielberg Directs a Disney Picture (The Color Purple) | p. 94 |
Trashing Black Culture, Part III: Genteel Fakery (Cry Freedom) | p. 100 |
Portrait of the Liberal as a Young Woman (A World Apart) | p. 103 |
The Fighting 54th (Glory) | p. 107 |
Letting the Real World In | p. 113 |
The Power of Despair (Pixote) | p. 115 |
Rich Man's Spiritual (Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done) | p. 117 |
A Jury of One's Peers (A Cry in the Dark) | p. 121 |
Con Job (Roger and Me) | p. 125 |
Sex in the New Puritan Age | p. 129 |
Another Country (My Beautiful Laundrette) | p. 133 |
Sexual Bohemia (Menage) | p. 138 |
The Old In-Out (Rita, Sue and Bob Too) | p. 141 |
David Leland's Fictions (Mona Lisa, Personal Services, Wish You Were Here) | p. 145 |
Upholding the Law of Desire (Dark Habits, What Have I Done to Deserve This!, Matador, Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) | p. 156 |
Hunger (Enemies, A Love Story) | p. 168 |
Glorious Compromise | p. 173 |
The Unembarrassed Camera (Personal Best) | p. 177 |
Hail Compromise! (Bull Durham) | p. 182 |
Chet's Blues (Let's Get Lost) | p. 187 |
Riffing on the Downbeat (Drugstore Cowboy) | p. 190 |
Slumming on the Road to Romance (The Fabulous Baker Boys) | p. 195 |
Actor/Director (My Left Foot) | p. 200 |
Duet (Driving Miss Daisy) | p. 203 |
The Emperor's New Clothes | p. 207 |
The Consequences of Inflation (Amadeus) | p. 209 |
Precursors (Out of Africa) | p. 214 |
Art-House Visions | p. 221 |
The Godfather as a Comedy of Menace (The Long Good Friday) | p. 225 |
Goodbye to Cruelty (The Eyes, the Mouth) | p. 227 |
American Tales (True Stories) | p. 230 |
Removing the Obstacles Between Audience and Character (Hour of the Star) | p. 234 |
Decorum (The Funeral) | p. 237 |
Mood Piece (Housekeeping) | p. 240 |
Film and Theater (Melo) | p. 244 |
Children's Gothic (Alice) | p. 248 |
Barbie and Kens (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) | p. 251 |
Brecht and Freud (The Singing Detective) | p. 253 |
Entertainments | p. 263 |
Rockin' Out (Stop Making Sense) | p. 267 |
A New Sensibility (Lost in America) | p. 270 |
Coming Up Roses (The Purple Rose of Cairo) | p. 274 |
Clair de Lune (Moonstruck) | p. 279 |
Summer Vacation (High Season) | p. 282 |
Directors | p. 287 |
Lear Without Tears (Ran) | p. 293 |
Mini-Jokes (Mystery Train) | p. 298 |
Serving the Text (The Dead) | p. 301 |
The Epic Impulse (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) | p. 308 |
For Reel (Tanner '88) | p. 317 |
How the Other Half Lives (Blue Velvet, Something Wild) | p. 321 |
Woman's Legacy (High Tide) | p. 332 |
Swing Shift: A Tale of Hollywood | p. 341 |
Contrasts | p. 355 |
A Selective Filmography | p. 363 |
Index | p. 373 |
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