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Tables of Contents for Hollywood's America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction: The Social and Cultural History of American Film
1
30
PART I / THE SILENT ERA
Introduction
Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film
31
2
Silent Film as Social Criticism
``Front Page Movies''
33
9
Kay Sloan
Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker
``Birth of a Nation-Propaganda as History''
42
11
John Nope Franklin
Silent Comedy as Cultural Commentary
``Work, Ideology and Chaplin's Tramp''
53
11
Charles Musser
The Revolt Against Victorianism
``Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the New Personality, 1914-1918''
64
10
Lary May
Primary Sources:
Edison v. American Mutoscope Company (1902)
74
2
``The Nickel Madness,'' 1907
76
3
Protest Against Birth of a Nation, 1915
79
2
Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915)
81
4
PART II / HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE
Introduction
Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade
85
2
Depression America and its Films
``Laughing Through Tears: Hollywood Answers to the Depression''
87
6
Maury Klein
The Depression's Human Toll
``Gangsters and Fallen Women''
93
10
Peter Roffman
Jim Purdy
Depression Allegories
``Gone With the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression''
103
9
Thomas N. Pauly
African Americans on the Silver Screen
``The Evolution of Black Film''
112
13
Thomas R. Cripps
Orson Welles as Poet and Historian
``The Magnificent Ambersons''
125
10
Charles Higham
Primary Sources:
The Introduction of Sound
135
4
``Pictures That Talk,'' 1924
135
1
Review of Don Juan, 1926
136
1
``Silence is Golden,'' 1930
137
2
Film Censorship
139
16
``The Sins of Hollywood,'' 1922
139
2
``The Don'ts and Be Carefuls,'' 1927
141
1
``The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930''
142
13
PART III / WARTIME HOLLYWOOD
Introduction
Hollywood's World War II Combat Films
155
2
Wartime Films as instruments of Propaganda
``What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945''
157
12
Clayton R. Koppes
Gregory D. Black
Casablanca as Propaganda
``You Must Remember This: The Case of Hal Wallis' Casablanca''
169
9
Randy Roberts
Bureau of Motion Pictures Report
Feature Review
178
3
How World War II Affected Women
``Mildred Pierce and Women in Film''
181
6
June Sochen
Primary Source:
U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganada, 1941
187
6
PART IV / POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD
Introduction
Double Indemnity and Film Noir
193
2
The Red Scare in Hollywood
``HUAC and the End of an Era,''
195
8
Peter Roffman
Jim Purdy
A Perverse Tribute to Hollywood's Past
``Sunset Boulevard''
203
8
Lois Banner
The Morality of Informing
``Ambivalence in On the Waterfront''
211
10
Kenneth R. Hey
Science Fiction as Social Commentary
``Invasion of the Body Snatchers''
221
10
Stuart Samuels
The Western as Cold War Film
``Gunfighters and Green Berets''
231
11
Richard Slotkin
Primary Sources:
U.S. v. Paramount (1947)
242
1
HUAC Hearings on Communist Infiltration of the Motion-Picture Industry, 1947
243
1
HUAC Hearings on Communist Infiltration of the Motion-Picture Industry, 1951-52
243
4
The Miracle Decision: Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, Commissioner of Education of New York, et al. (1952)
247
4
PART V / HOLLYWOOD SINCE VIETNAM
Introduction
Bonnie and Clyde
251
1
A Shifting Sensibility
``Dr. Strangelove: nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus''
252
13
Charles Maland
Films of the Late Sixties and Early Seventies
``From Counterculture to Counterrevolution, 1967-1971''
265
10
Michael Ryan
Douglas Kellner
Reaffirming Traditional Values
``The Blue Collar Ethnic in Bicentennial America: Rocky'' (1976)
275
9
Daniel J. Leab
Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War
``Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities''
284
14
James S. Olson
Randy Roberts
Films of the Eighties
``The Yuppie Texts''
298
11
William Joe Palmer
Our Movie-Made President
``No Method to His Madness''
309
11
Richard Schickel
Primary Source:
The Hollywood Rating System, 1968
320
3
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Bibliography of Film History
323
46
Acknowledgments
369