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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Why Movies Matter | |
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| Going to the Movies: Early Audiences | |
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| Introduction to the Article.Article: From The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| "The Nickel Madness" | |
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| Report of Censorship of Motion Pictures and of Investigation of Motion Picture Theatres of Cleveland (1913) | |
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| "House Fly Panics Pittsburgh Movie Audience" | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Heroes and Heroines of Their Own Entertainment: Progressive-Era Cinema | |
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| Introduction to the Article | |
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| Article: From The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| "The Social Uses of the Moving Picture" | |
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| Los Angeles Socialist Movie Theater | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| The Rise of Hollywood: Movies, Ideology, and Audiences in the Roaring Twenties:.Introduction to the Article | |
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| Article: From Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| "The Deluxe Picture Palace" | |
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| "Petting At the Movies" | |
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| "The Actor's Part" | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Who Controls What We See?: Censorship and the Attack on Hollywood "Immorality" | |
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| Introduction to the Article | |
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| Article: Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930-1940 | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| The Power of the Movies and Debates Over Censorship | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Confronting the Great Depression: Renewing Democracy in Hard Times | |
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| Introduction to the Article.Article: From The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| "The Movies and Political Propaganda": Upton Sinclair | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Alternative Cinemas: Movies on the Margins.Introduction to the Article | |
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| Article: From Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking and Society Before Television | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| "The Negro and the Photo-Play" | |
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| "'The Symbol of the Unconquered, New Play" | |
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| "Some New American Documentaries: In Defense of Liberty | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Seeing Red: Cold War Hollywood | |
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| Introduction to the Article.Article: From American Cinema/American Culture | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| FBI Report, "Communist Political Influence and Activities in the Motion Picture Business in Hollywood, California." | |
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| "The Waldorf Statement," issued by the Association of Motion Picture Producers | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Eisenhower's America: Prosperity and Problems in the 1950s | |
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| Introduction to the Article.Article: From American Film and Society Since 1945 | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| Teen Idol: Hedda Hopper Interviews | |
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| Reviews of Rebel Without a Cause | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Black and White in Color: Race and Film in the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| Introduction to the Article | |
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| Article: From Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film | |
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| Documents:.Introduction to the Documents | |
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| Variety Reports Reactions to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? | |
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| "Blaxploitation Movies: Cheap Thrills That Degrade Blacks" | |
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| Readings and Screenings | |
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| Vietnam and the Crisis of American Power: Movies, War, and Militarism | |