Introduction: Why Movies Matter
1. Going to the Movies: Early Audiences
From The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 / Richard Butsch
2. Heroes and Heroines of Their Own Entertainment: Progressive-Era Cinema
From The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film / Kay Sloan
3. Rise of Hollywood: Movies, Ideology, and Audiences in the Roaring Twenties
From Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America / Steven J. Ross
4. Who Controls What We See? Censorship and the Attack on Hollywood "Immorality"
Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930-1940 / Gregory D. Black
5. Confronting the Great Depression: Renewing Democracy in Hard Times
From The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way / Lary May
6. Alternative Cinemas: Movies on the Margins
From Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking and Society Before Television / Thomas Cripps
7. Seeing Red: Cold War Hollywood
From American Cinema/American Culture / John Belton
8. Eisenhower's America: Prosperity and Problems in the 1950s
From American Film and Society Since 1945 / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster
9. Black and White in Color: Race and Film in the 1960s and 1970s
From Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film / Ed Guerrero
10. Vietnam and the Crisis of American Power: Movies, War, and Militarism
From Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner
11. Reagan's America: The Backlash Against Women and Men
From Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women / Susan Faludi
12. Hollywood Goes Global: The Internationalization of American Cinema
Is Hollywood America? The Transnationalization of the American Film Industry / Frederick Wasser.
