The political companion to American film / edited by Gary Crowdus ; foreword by Edward Asner.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

African-American filmmakers
Allen, Woody
Altman, Robert
American film criticism
Anti-Communist films
Auteur theory
Big businessmen in American cinema
Blacks in American cinema
Capra, Frank
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
Child actors
Cimino, Michael
The Communist Party in Hollywood
Conglomerates in the film industry
Contemporary film theory
Coppola, Francis Ford
Crime movies
De Antonio, Emile
De Palma, Brian. Disney, Walter Elias
Dixon, Thomas
The drive-in theater
Eastwood, Clint
Fairbanks, Douglas
Farmer, Frances
The film and photo league
Film noir
Flaherty, Robert Joseph
Ford, John
Foreman, Carl
Frankenheimer, John
Frontier films
Fuller, Sam
Garfield, John
Gays and lesbians in the cinema
Genre
Gilliam, Terry
Griffith, David Wark
The Hollywood blacklist
The Hollywood studio system
The horror film
Jews in American cinema
Juvenile delinquents
Kazan, Elia
Kramer, Stanley
Kubrick, Stanley
Lardner, Jr., Ring. Lawson, John Howard
Lee, Spike
LeRoy, Mervyn
Losey, Joseph
Lumet, Sidney
Maltz, Albert
Marriage in the movies
The Marx Brothers
Mental illness in the movies
Milius, John
The Hollywood musical
Native Americans in Hollywood films
Peckinpah, Sam
Penn, Arthur
Poitier, Sidney
Political assassination thrillers
Political thrillers
Politicians in the American cinema
Pollack, Sidney
Polonsky, Abraham
Potamkin, Harry Alan
Prison films
Rebel hero
Ritt, Martin
Road movies
Robeson, Paul
Sayles, John. Schrader, Paul
Schulberg, Budd
Science fiction films
Scorsese, Martin
Silent films
The small town in American cinema
Spielberg, Steven
Spy films
Stallone, Sylvester
Stone, Oliver
Strand, Paul
Sturges, Paul
Trumbo, Dalton
Television as seen by Hollywood
The unfriendly Hollywood 19
Van Peebles, Melvin
Vidor, King
Vietnam War films
The war film
Wayne, John
The Western
Wexler, Haskell
Wilder, Billy
Wilson, Michael
The women's film
World War II animated propaganda cartoons
Zanuck, Darryl