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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: The Social and Cultural History of American Film | |
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The Silent Era | |
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Introduction: Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film | |
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Silent Cinema as Social Criticism: “Front Page Movies” | |
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Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker: “The Birth of a Nation” | |
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The Revolt Against Victorianism: “Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the New Personality” | |
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Primary Sources | |
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Edison v. American Mutoscope Company | |
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“The Nickel Madness” | |
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Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio | |
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Fighting a Vicious Film: Protest Against The Birth of a Nation | |
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Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915 | |
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Analysis | |
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Hollywood's Golden Age | |
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Introduction: Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade | |
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Depression America and its Films: “Laughing Through Tears” | |
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The Depression's Human Toll: “Gangsters and Fallen Women” | |
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Depression Allegories: “Gone with the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression” | |
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African Americans on the Silver Screen: “The Evolution of Black Film” | |
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Primary Sources | |
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The Introduction of Sound | |
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“Pictures That Talk” | |
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Review of Don Juan | |
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“Silence is Golden” | |
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Film Censorship | |
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The Sins of Hollywood, 1922 | |
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“The Don'ts and Be Carefuls” | |
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The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 | |
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Wartime Hollywood | |
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Introduction: Hollywood's World War II Combat Films | |
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Casablanca as Propaganda: “You Must Remember This: The Case of Hal Wallis' Casablanca” | |
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Bureau of Motion Pictures Report: Casablanca | |
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John Wayne and Wartime Hollywood: “John Wayne Goes to War” | |
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The Woman's Film: “When Women Wept” | |
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Primary Sources: US Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda, 1941 | |
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Postwar Hollywood | |
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Introduction: Double Indemnity and Film Noir | |
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The Red Scare in Hollywood: “HUAC and the End of an Era” | |
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The Morality of Informing: “Ambivalence and On the Waterfront” | |
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Science Fiction as Social Commentary: “The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956) | |
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The Western as Cold War Film: “Gunfighters and Green Berets: The Magnificent Seven and the Myth of Counter-Insurgency” | |
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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: “Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub) Urban Imaginary” | |
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Primary Sources | |
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United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947) | |
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Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry | |
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US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 | |
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US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951 | |
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The Miracle Decision | |
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Inc. v. Wilson, Commissioner of Education of New York, et al. (1952) | |
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Hollywood and the Tumultuous 1960s | |
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Introduction: Bonnie and Clyde | |
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A Shifting Sensibility: “Dr. Strangelove: Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus” | |
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Films of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s: “From Counterculture to Counterrevolution, 1967-1971” | |
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Reaffirming Traditional Values: “The Blue Collar Ethnic in Bicentennial America: Rocky” | |
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Presenting African Americans on Film: “The Rise and Fall of Sidney Poitier” | |
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Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War: “A Sacred Mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam” | |
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Primary Sources: The Hollywood Rating System, 1968 | |
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Hollywood in Our Time | |
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Introduction: A Changing Hollywood | |
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Feminism and Recent American Film: “Gendering Expectations: Genre and Allegory in Readings of Thelma and Louise” | |
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Hollywood Remembers World War II: “Saving Private Ryan and Postwar Memory in America” | |
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East Meets West: “The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood” | |
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Immigration at the Movies: “The Immigrant in Film: Evolution of an Illuminating Icon” | |
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Movies and the Construction of Historical Memory: “Movies, History, and the Disneyfication of the Past: The Case of Pocahontas” | |
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Bibliography of Recent Books in American Film History | |
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Index | |