Cinema, politics, and society in America

Introduction / Philip Davies and Brian Neve

The mind of the mob / P.H. Melling

The political economy of Hollywood / Richard Maltby

The nation in crisis / Ralph Willett

Made for each other / Richard Maltby

The 1950s, the case of Elia Kazan and On the waterfront / Brian Neve

A growing independence / Philip Davies

The American western and American society / Christopher Frayling

The working class goes to Hollywood / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster

Blacks in American film / Mary Ellison

Keystone to Kojak / Robert Reiner

Blood on the Nash Ambassador / Eric Mottram.